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Smart from a business, useful from a scientific viewpoint are the publicity stunts of Capt. Frank Hawks, superintendent of aviation for Texas Co. Last June he set the coast-to-coast record in two swoops of his Lockheed Air Express. Last week he set out (with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations he unhooked...
...interview, in this morning's CRIMSON points out, however, the discovery of the new planet is not of paramount importance from an astronomical viewpoint. This can be said without minimizing in any way the importance of the work of Peroival Lowell, which involved a tremendous amount of research and calculation, and was done at a time when astronomy was not developed to the point it is today. There is a tendency however, in the so called popularization of science to seize upon only its most striking phases, passing over much work of a more enduring nature because of its lack...
...Mutt & Jeff and the Katzenjammer Kids are naturally agog to discover what will happen to Amos 'n' Andy in their next radio installment. People who have roared mightily at Moran & Mack and the late great Bert Williams are naturally prepared to enjoy the Negroid inflection and viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives and club-lives ("The Mystic Knights...
...questions, as in the manner in which it is expected they will be answered. For the first and only time in its troublous history the prohibition question will stand on its own merits before the country. The questions will be answered independent of party lines. The wet or dry viewpoint will not be reliant upon the personal stand of political aspirants. There will be no religious issue to cloud the prohibition question as in the last election and the vote will be distinctly national in character, with no particular sectional interests involved...
...word; it has been used in the past to represent the movement away from rigid scholarship towards life, away from rigidity of subject matter towards its interpretation in common experience. However the "New Humanism" of Dr. George Sarton deals exclusively with the broadening of the scientific viewpoint of determining its relation to history, and it is on this subject that he will deliver the three Colver lectures at Brown University this spring...