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...service was desperately needed, for science had far outrun popular understanding. Relativity was nearly a generation old, but it had not yet penetrated the thin outer layers of the public mind. The Quantum Theory, perhaps even more important, was even less understood. People needed to know that stars were no longer points in space, but convenient physical laboratories, observed through fantastic instruments. People needed to be told that the atom had fallen apart, had dissolved into lesser particles...
...black and white, young and old. Of course he met men who seemed not to want knowledge. . . . He also met men who seemed not to want food. But ... by nature [man] has to eat-and he has to learn. If he stops eating, his stomach shrinks, his body gets thin, his face gets pale. If he stops learning, his mind shrinks, his thoughts get thin, his talk gets pale-and boring...
...Thin, alabaster-pale Father John Baptist Janssens, new General of the Society of Jesus (TIME, Sept. 23), paid a formal call upon his Holy Father at the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban hills. Said Pius...
...itself. This year the nation had hoped to produce 6,000,000 automobiles, start 1,200,000 houses and other goods in like proportion. This overall program was so great that neither materials nor labor were sufficient to meet it in a single year. Materials were spread so thin that shortages held back all production, until neither the normal efficiency nor normal profits of mass production could be achieved...
Just because the University of Connecticut in a relatively small institution without hyper-thyroid press agents, let not Crimson football rooter hold the roseate opinion that Harvard will have everything its own way on Soldiers Field thin Saturday. Although there has not yet been devised any infallible method of judging a team's strength before it has played a game, reports emanating from Storrs, Conn., habitat of the U-Conn-Huskies, as the Crimson's first opponent, likes to be called, seem to indicate that the men from the Nutmeg State should enter the Stadium on at least even terms...