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...life at Cambridge more attractive President Conant last week called attention to the problem of faculty housing. He would make masters as comfortable as their luxuriously-housed pupils. Said he: "It is no longer as pleasant or easy to live in Cambridge as in many other university communities." A placid suburb 25 years ago, Cambridge is now a bustling city of 125,000, circling the university in a tight-clenched grip. Pleasant residences have steadily grown scarcer, more expensive...
...First Billion he writes of Stanford White's "mortal death," burlesques Stillman, himself and the English language in the same breath: "Something about the repose, the quiet self-mastery of cows subdued the demon in his own breast. He passed hours photographing his placid animals...
...light . . . that most fundamental constant.-Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. In a universe torn to metaphysical shreds by conflicting theories as to its nature and origin, with the calm old laws of cause &; effect pushed aside by principles of indeterminance and inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light has remained a faithful standby. Ready to doubt almost everything else, 20th Century scientists have not doubted that light always travels at the same speed through a vacuum. Last week from a sunny California valley came shocking news that...
Christopher Bean (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). At the house of a placid, kindly New England physician there arrives one day an art dealer who is curious about a young man, a painter, who died there many years before. The art dealer is followed by others of his kind. It turns out that the late Christopher Bean's paintings, considered worthless while he was alive, are now worth fabulous sums. The art dealers want to know whether the doctor had kept...
...iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles. It is the unofficial domain, the scientific laboratory and the conditioning gymnasium of sturdy young Father Ber- nard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., "the Glacier Priest," head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif...