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...sense impressions, fewer & fewer systems are necessary to explain Nature, since each system explains more. Thus mechanics and heat are merged when heat is revealed as molecular motion. But this is far from the pyramid's base; a hand dipped in hot water feels heat, not motion. The apex of the pyramid, not yet reached, would be a single system containing the terms necessary to describe all phenomena...
...Police, of the House Members in general, and of the Tutors in particular that drunkeness and abuses of House rules are no more flagrant than formerly, that they never were serious, and that, if one examines closely, they are definitely decreased in intensity and number, and one finds the apex of the Lowell House hierarchy alone in his ignorance...
...toes only one-fourth of all the holding and operating companies which Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke put under the control of Utilities Power & Light Corp. of Chicago. Serving 550 communities in the U. S., 488 in England and Wales. 31 in Canada, Utilities Power & Light is, however, not the apex of Promoter Clarke's classic pyramid. Its control rests in a small issue of voting stock held by a super holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. which in turn is controlled by a super-super holding company. Grand Potentate of them all, called Webster Securities Corp...
...knows just what or why. Forty years ago Boer schoolboys, London clerks, Nevada miners knew the name well. For in 1896 John Hays Hammond, a prisoner under sentence of death in Pretoria Gaol, was a world headliner. From a news point of view, that was the apex of his career. But Convict Hammond has lived to tell a much lengthier, triumphantly anticlimactic tale. Last week he celebrated his Both birthday by publishing his autobiography. Oldster Hammond's report on his career, like Youngster Hammond's reports on mining properties, was clear, factual, illuminating, left no doubt...
...Feinman Field" to their own "Abe" Shushan airport, reclaimed at enormous expense from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other member of the menage, a parachute jumper, is really the father. None of them knows, and none- except the boy, who violently resents being reminded...