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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...core to which the Tech humanities program, which will occupy 25% of a student's time, will be tied is a random study of cultures, at six weeks per culture. This sort of work goes on for two years, after which the student specializes for a year and a half. Then he spends a last half year synthesizing what he has absorbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tech Sets Up New Humanities Division | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Cheery Universe. The universe of continuous creation, Hoyle believes, is a very cheerful place compared with earlier conceptions. Most early theoretical universes were dismally "running down." Eventually, the older cosmologists thought, all space would be uniform and dead. There would be no light, no life, no motion except the random wanderings of faintly warm molecules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: According to Hoyle | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...DISENCHANTED (388 pp.) - Budd Schulberg-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bottom of the Glass | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...BARONS (579 pp.)-Charles Werfenbaker-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Wealth & Power | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal's McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone. Instead, after careful autopsies, he found only evidences of poisoning such as he got with injections of substances picked at random from the laboratory shelves. The rats' adrenal glands were enlarged, the thymus wasted away and the stomach ulcerated. Dr. Hans Selye concluded sadly that he had been wasting his time. Then it struck him: none of the substances which he had injected had directly caused death, but all had caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Life of Stress | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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