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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this new [Communist] economic system, but you cannot argue away the fact that ... 170 million people are . . living, working, producing their daily bread, marrying, bearing children . without the 'help' of any capitalists, landlords or employers . . . But, somebody may say, isn't Russia a pretty tough sort of place? What about the purges and the shootings and the lack of civil liberties . .? Yes, Russia is pretty tough Things have happened there which I,'for one, most passionately hope may never happen in Britain. But let us never forget this. It is very largely we and the other...
...something new about plants' "photoperiodism." They irradiated soybeans and other sensitive plants with narrow-wave bands of colored light from a spectroscope. Judging by the plants' responses to different colors, the experimenters decided that plants must contain invisible amounts of a blue pigment which acts as a sort of alarm clock. The scientists do not know exactly what the powerful pigment is, but when it gets the right amount of illumination, it tells the plant to wake up and start the business of flowering...
...will tell your students to study certain pages, and when you meet them you'll ask questions to see whether they obeyed you. If they really have, you'll congratulate them and give them a good mark. Bosh!" But as it turned out, that was not the sort of teaching...
...Jowler. Like anything else, university slang has had its contagious fads. In the 17th Century, students ranged their drinking companions in a sort of academic hierarchy. A Bachelor meant a lean drunkard, a Bachelor of Law was one "that hath a purple face, inchac't with rubies," a Doctor was one that "hath a red nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both...
...Desai-Khurody farm shows important progress against two of India's biggest problems: malnutrition, and the misuse of its tremendous cattle population, the world's biggest. Says Khurody: "I want to make this a sort of Mecca to which pilgrims can come from all over India to learn about cow culture...