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...strange week for Southerners. Outside the South it was cold enough, but not unseasonably so, as snow covered most of the Eastern States. It was so cold in Lincoln, Neb. that, according to one scientist there, the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium shrank four inches, reducing its seating capacity by 29. Little grumbling went with bad weather there; Nebraska's drought had been so bad that a heavy snowstorm brought Statewide rejoicing. Miles City, Mont, was reported the coldest place in the U. S. last week, with 27° below...
...spoiled intellectual rebel and ended up as a tycoon with a rich wife. He had eight children, of whom the first, Sophia, became an internationally famed trained nurse. The third was named Carl Gustaf Emil. In him was a little of the tycoon, a little of the scientist, a great deal of the rebel. Wrote his mother to a friend: "I can feel secure about all the rest of my children, but what in heaven's name is going to become of Gustaf...
...waiting to receive him while he carefully shaved and dressed, made his peace with the gift of a revolver, which he showed the Lama how to use. At Lhabrang Monastery he was hissed and stoned by pilgrims. The expedition took two years, gave Colonel Mannerheim a reputation as a scientist as well as a soldier, made him a commander of Uhlans. In 1913 he rose to be commander of the Tsar's Uhlan bodyguard. When the war broke out he was a major general...
...Agriculture pointed out last week-just for fun-that if old Dr. Shull had received a royalty of only 1? an acre for the 25,000,000 U. S. acres planted to hybrid corn in 1939, he would have taken in $250,000-a tidy income for a scientist. In 1939 Iowa planted 77% of her total corn acreage to hybrid corn, Indiana planted 60%, Illinois and Ohio 57% each...
...Social scientists have a story about the social scientist who measured the intelligence of convicts in prison. He found it just as high as the intelligence of the civil population, delivered a popular lecture on his finding. A woman in the audience got up and asked him what intelligence was. "Madam," said the scientist loftily, "intelligence is that which these measurements measure...