Word: atomical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surely if there have been written such texts as Duncan's "The New Knowledge" or the "Inside of the Atom", Harvard can give a course suited to the many searchers after that board knowledge necessary to culture and speculation. Must they always be plunged unwittingly into chemistry courses for the specialist? Will Harvard offer no rival attraction to the Lowell Institute lectures...
...discovery would not affect in the least the usefulness of the atomic theory as regards all ordinary chemical processes--but we might well, perhaps, find another name for that which we now call an 'atom', because the word 'atom' indicates indivisibility...