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More Speed. The Lamb & Retherford experiment acted rather like an improved microscope, revealing fine details about the hydrogen atom which earlier and coarser methods had left unsuspected. Now scientists, equipped with a new road map, may move ahead with more boldness and speed. Perhaps they will find out things that no one knows at present: what electrons and protons-and even matter itself-really...
...example of the Parkian unorthodoxy that may be expected to continue coming from his typewriter. Writing on the Apostles' Creed, he claims it is a present day anachronism composed expressly to combat the medieval Gnostic heresy that the world was not created by God, but by a lesser, coarser deity, and that Christ, the Incarnate Word, did not truly live, suffer and die like a man, but only seemed to do so. He calls it a "Bill of Spiritual Rights, claiming for man the privilege of . . . establishing firsthand acquaintance with Deity in the person of an intimate, ever present...
...Wilson speaking," he would enunciate icily. "Can't you walk over?" Then he would emerge from his study slightly ashamed, muttering: "I fancy I've lost you a beau." Sometimes he added: "I can imagine no worse fate for a girl than to marry a man of coarser fibre than...
...with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not for several years did he discover his golden tenor range and enormous volume. And even with these assets, his Metropolitan debut in 1903 was no smash. Critics found his acting inferior and his vocal style coarser than that of his great, aristocratic predecessor, Jean de Reszke...
Impressed by her youthful innocence, our interviewer discreetly steered the conversation away from any mention of the Dirty Thirty and other coarser aspects of Radcliffe life. Subjects discussed were Jack Comeford, Tech dances, and Miss Hagler's cello...