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Actually, although all attempts to pin it down in the laboratory have failed, the little neutrino has already made itself useful. When particles are knocked out of a nucleus, there is a mysterious disappearance of both energy of motion and energy of "spin" (angular momentum). It is therefore assumed that the lost energies ride away on the elusive neutrino...
...Shaw, Susie Frelinghuysen and her husband George L. K. Morris, who attracted a modicum of attention last summer by inserting the name of their snub-nosed Pekingese, Rose, in the New York Social Register. Artists Gallatin, Shaw, Frelinghuysen & Morris hung up some 20 canvases on which numerous arrangements of angular and circular planes had been soberly defined and painted, in some cases pasted and cut from odd bits of paper and cloth-all very meticulously worked out, all very interesting to those believing that exercises in pure form are significant...
After posing for shots with his sisters of the ballet, Earle proceeded to discuss the beauty situation in the country. "The ideal type of beauty," he said, "is the v-shaped, angular girl. Females of the country have too many curves as shown by the typical student at Radcliffe...
...very well-paid practice. People liked him, called him "the little doctor." Wherever he went, "people always began talking to him, telling him all their lives if there were time enough, because he had a way of listening gently." He even listened gently to his wife, the angular daughter of a rural dean, who loved to give the little doctor a piece of her mind. She, alas, did not appreciate his passive qualities, thought he ought to get out and hustle more...
...Matisse's greatest mural made headlines last week (see above), his greatest rival in the field of modern art, Pablo Picasso, was honored by three shows at once. When both of them were young rebels in Paris, it was Painter Matisse who coined the name "Cubist" for the angular painting of his rival. At the Museum of Living Art, pretentious name for the important collection of modern painting that public-spirited Albert Eugene Gallatin has presented to New York University, there appeared The Three Musicians,* a semi-abstract painting of three masked figures, two in motley...