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...year a well organized course should leave the student impression which clearly distinguishes the highlands from the lowlands of the terrain which has been traversed; he should perceive intuitively a brief coherent outline of the entire work. Yet Mathematics A, to cover the prescribed ground, must proceed at a pace which renders all but the most brilliant men incapable of obtaining a thorough grasp of the topics as they rush by, and the diverse nature of the subjects which are treated does not help to clarify the final picture. If the course intended merely to present a series of glimpses...
Back to Purnea, the Moth brought consistently discouraging news to the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition. Flying conditions were bad. One day low hanging clouds obscured most of the surrounding terrain, an important drawback because the expedition's scientific aim was to map aerially 250 sq. mi. surrounding the peak. Another day a great white snow plume whirled menacingly about Everest's cone. The flyers were waiting for a wind velocity not to exceed 40 m.p.h. They fell impatiently to tinkering with their ships and equipment, already at taut perfection. They had been at Purnea nine days, but precious...
...Angela's previous predicaments are larks compared to what happens when Giovanni is at the front. He is brought down in an air fight over enemy terrain. Thinking he is dead, Angela studies to be a nun. Giovanni recovers but gets caught trying to walk back to Italy. By the time he escapes prison camp, Angela has taken her vow of chastity. Giovanni pleads with her to break it. She has no sooner convinced him that this is impossible than a bomb drops on Giovanni. This time he is really done...
...Oklahoma's Professor Frank Armon Melton noted in an airplane mosaic map of Horry County, S. C. some strangely regular furrows in the terrain. Later with Professor William Schriever (University of Oklahoma) he examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been...
...image. The school would be across the valley from "Taliesin," his studio-estate in the dairy country near Spring Green, Wis. He would be the chief faculty member, teaching male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called...