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...hope that the wide and friendly interest shown in this concert will spur the Composers' Lab to present similar programs at frequent intervals. Out of such affairs come the major composers of tomorrow...
Lurking among the flowers and vegetables in many a South African garden patch is an innocent-looking weed called dagga. Dried and smoked like marijuana, a close relative, it induces a dreamy recklessness that can spur men to acts of terrible savagery. Nearly one-fourth of the rapes, murders and maulings that occur in the slums of South Africa's great cities are blamed on dagga...
...board of the Boston Herald gave out what it thought was the result, Sherwood immediately organized a parade of victory. As the tallest man in Harvard, he became the leader. I can still see him, waving his long arms, shouting some doggerel that he may have composed on the spur of the moment, heading down Tremont Street and turning the corner at Boylston. The next day, when the delayed returns from California changed the entire world's political picture, I was almost afraid to contact...
...seven days a week, some 2,500 construction workers fitted together a $43 million ore-crushing mill and smelter. Across the rugged hills more workers laid out a 4,200-ft. landing strip, a new highway, a 30-mile, $7,500,000 railroad to the Southern Pacific's spur at Hayden. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, the first trickle of molten copper came out of the huge San Manuel smelter...
...policy will bring increased payments for the overhead expenses of medical research projects financed by grants from the Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation. It will thus immediately ease the budgets of the many medical schools that receive these grants. In addition, the policy will probably spur private foundations to make similar increases in the grant-payments that they issue to research institutions, Cutler said...