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...Industry from a practical standpoint will not realize that a change has been made because the change is too small." Not discussed was the effect of a shortened inch on longer measurements: A mile would be approximately ⅛ inch shorter, the U. S. would measure 31 feet 2 inches wider...
...kinds, or the expenditure of less money on teaching for any and all purposes--the Union might have been justified in its accusation that he has suggested "a ploughing under of human brains." But he did no such thing; and his leadership in the Harvard plan for the wider study of American History, in the establishment of the National Scholarships, and in the development of two new professional schools within the University is sufficient evidence that he is not "thinking in terms of a static society." There is nothing in President Conant's record which lends color to the imputation...
...minister, his mother a missionary worker -but because Physicist Compton thought through, over a number of years, to a belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference of Jews & Christians, a position left vacant by the death of Newton Diehl Baker (TIME, Jan. 3). Physicist Compton will be specially concerned with N. C. J. C.'s educational work, will consult regularly with his Catholic...
Last month General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. established the $10,000,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to promote "a wider knowledge of basic economic truths generally accepted as such by authorities of recognized standing." This week the foundation surprised cynics, who feared the money might be used as a propaganda fund for big business, by turning over the income on $1,000,000-between $35,000 and $40,000-to the University of Chicago. Not sure yet how it would use the gift, the university emphasized it had been given complete freedom to decide what truths to broadcast...
...replacing the relatively crude, haphazard, and extremely expensive method of improving vacuum tube performance by trial and error, hitherto universally applied, Chaffee is believed to have opened the way to much wider development and use of the electric "valves...