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...nine days, the Nova had risen to peak brilliance. At that time its magnitude was one and a half, a half million times brighter than was normal. This rise is a much slower one than takes place in the usual Nova. It began its normal decline, but stopped falling and held a fairly steady level of about two and a half magnitudes...
President Jacobs' comment is a refreshing example of something else. When more private university heads have the courage to display by their attitudes their opinion of those liberal zealots who insisted on ten amendments to the Constitution, education will no doubt touch a new high peak. How the bones of Thomas Jefferson would rattle if they knew how assiduously this educator applies himself to "old-fashioned Americanism!" How William Randolph Hearst and Father Coughlin would gurgle with complacent satisfaction were there more universities with Oglethorpe's liberal attitude...
Last week the Florida dog-racing season reached its peak. At the Biscayne Kennel Club, where Vincent Lopez' orchestra plays and Helen Morgan sings, a skinny, long-backed hound named Crafty Boy won the Florida Derby, most important greyhound race. At the West Flagler track a brindle puppy named George Elfrink won the season's major juvenile race, the $2,000 Nursery Stakes...
When Section 7a was written into the National Industrial Recovery Act two years ago, observers agreed that A. F. of L., whose membership had declined 38% since its peak in 1920, had been handed something very handsome on a silver platter. What neither William Green nor his lieutenants foresaw was that in guaranteeing all workers the right to organize, the Federal Government could not guarantee to organize them for A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. would have to show a little ability on its own account. Despite the fact that A. F. of L. elaborately pretended...
Children learn the word "no" early, use it more & more frequently as they grow older. Just as rapid is the rise in the number of questions they ask. The number of commands issued, on the other hand, reaches a peak at the age of 4, declines slowly thereafter. Girls show a faster general rate of development than boys. They ask more questions, issue more commands, say more "noes," do more gossiping. Boys surpass them only in fondness for meaningless words, babblings, gurglings, imitations of animals...