Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum because they try not to paraphrase mathematical procedure, but to follow trains of physical thought, trace the origins from which they sprang, show the ends to which they lead...
...Evolution of Physics, Drs. Einstein & Infeld admit that modern Quantum Theory has thrown a very powerful searchlight on the atom, but they are dissatisfied with it as a picture of reality. Quantum Theory makes use of old-fashioned absolute time, with three separate space dimensions. But each particle requires its own three space coordinates. So to describe two particles six dimensions are needed; a description of ten particles require's 30 dimensions. That is too abstract for Dr. Einstein. He thinks four dimensions are enough...
...topsy-turvy radio discussion yesterday afternoon Crimson debaters defended the "Equal Rights for Women" amendment against the attacks of a Wellesley team that suggested that passage of the amendment might mean that Harvard college "might have to admit women onto its sacred premises...
...said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum." The 48 hours expired, and nothing happened. For a member of the Cabinet to hand the P.M. an ultimatum is something which in London simply isn't done-but nervous Britons were willing to admit that, if it ever is, Hore-Belisha is the sort...
...list of applicants for Harvard list the drama as their principal interest. Most of the candidates say they want to go back to their papers after an enlightening year at Harvard, but that they hope to be able to write more intelligently of governmental and economic problems. They invariably admit that they are unable to cope with the complexities of modern government and economics. If only two or three of the ten or so men selected for a year at Harvard come out really able to do some high-powered coping with these problems then the experiment will have been...