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...trying to cram their dogmatic opinions down students' throats, giving them no notion of what Science has to do with the price of eggs. Most horrible example: A certain chemistry professor who admitted that he often sneaked into his laboratory after hours to rearrange his students' apparatus so that their experiments would be sure to come out right...
...Chicago's Jackson Park, a submarine, wallowing on the surface, got in trouble. In 15 minutes the entire crew was rescued. The entire crew consisted of one Barney Connett, 34, a gasoline service station manager by vocation, an inventor and mechanic in his spare time.' Rescue apparatus: a speed boat and a lasso...
...receiving set on the top of the Observatory tower. When received on the tower, the signals are transmitted up on graphs, so that a permanent written record is available for government and research stations. The only thing Professor Brooks has to do is to see that the sending apparatus is supplied with fresh batteries...
...challenge Stalin's speech. Deputies may discuss, argue, criticize specific Government acts, but not party policy. But circulating back to their union republics, autonomous republics, provinces and national regions at the end of their session, they are a part of the vast official, governmental, administrative and bureaucratic apparatus that translates policy to the 170,126,000. Their Presidium of 37 members elected at a joint session is theoretically the highest executive organ of State power, the interpreter of laws, donor of decorations, holder of the right of pardon. They form into the body of soviet law measures initiated, approved...
...Schwab's laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital is filled with electrical medical, and photographic apparatus. He has mares of long cable to carry brain waves from room to room. The patient is isolated and insulated in a compartment sorrounded by wire screens to keep out electrical and other disturbances...