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...greenhouses on the eucalyptus-shaded campus of the University of California, Dr. William Frederick Gericke has worked out a technique for growing flowers and vegetables in shallow tanks of water, containing in solution the minerals that plants must have. Dr. Gericke calls this kind of crop-growing "hydroponics" (Greek, hydro, water; ponos, labor). His tanks have yielded some remarkable results (TIME, March 1, 1937, et seq.), but there has been much argument over whether hydroponics has any commercial value. Nevertheless, several commercial growers are using the Gericke system, foreign governments have asked questions, and the National Resources Committee has spot...
Mason Fornald should place in either the high or low hurdles or both. Haydock and Aertsen should garner a couple of points in the high jump; Pettingell and Maclsaac should figure in the pole vault. Brennan and Shallow are due to place in the hammer, and Bert Litman will toss the javelin. Joe Bradley is running the half; Ros Brayton, the mile
Confederate blood boils at TIME'S comparison of Fascist Franco with Confederate Robert E. Lee. This is the absurd apogee of its consistently biased, frequently inaccurate, reports of the Spanish war. TIME'S glib essay at historical analogy, is shallow, unsupported by historical fact...
...public approval. It is true that they stir up public interest, but they focus its attention on second rate efforts and obscure the good. Better far that the prize money and attendant publicity be withheld on years in which there is nothing outstanding than that they be awarded to shallow and pretentious material. Unless men are selected to serve on the Committee who have the courage, energy, and above all, the awareness to look below the surface, the Pulitzer Prizes were better abolished altogether...
First places were evenly divided, seven going to each team. It was a day of sweeps for both. Harvard swept the hammer throw, with Steve Brennan, Bill Shallow, and Bob Sears throwing one, two, three. Brennan's throw was 159 ft. 11 in. The shot was also swept by Harvard. George Downing won with 47 ft., 6 1-2 in. Howard Mendel and Bert Litman followed him. John Erhard, Pen Tuttle, and Dave Rivinus won the two-mile run for the Crimson. Erhard and Tuttle led the field by approximately 100 yards. Erhard's time...