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Peter the First (Lenfilm) is a colossally bad imitation of Hollywood's super-colossal technique. It attempts to compress Tolstoy's story of the 36-year reign (1689-1725) of Peter the Great into ten reels, showing Peter as an anti-religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The picture places boisterous emphasis on Peter's essential democracy, particularly his wiving of the Lithuanian commoner who later became Catherine I. Colossal capstone: Peter, toasting Russia's bright future, publicly bussing the bare bottom of Catherine's first-born child...
...discourse on "Uncertain Inferences" Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher of the University of London, onetime investment statistician, conveyed the idea that, though mathematical logic may compress uncertainty into a small area, the smaller the area the greater the uncertainty. He gave a problem which, if it were not for the uncertainty of inferences, would be readily solvable: "The agricultural land of an Egyptian village is of unequal fertility. The fertility of every portion is known with exactitude, but the height of the Nile affects different parts of the territory unequally. It is required to divide the area between the several households...
...Langdon's lengthy sermons manuscripts has been uncovered in the University archives, and has been placed on public display in Widener Library along with other valuable early records. The manuscript is in a private, original shorthand, devised by Langdon so he could compress his notes. In this form, written minutely, the notes fill twenty-four pages. It is probable the sermon required more than two hours rapid talking for delivery, authorities agree. Nobody has yet undertaken to decode the message...
...soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits the patient to breathe during the years which may be necessary to repair his throat. Dr. Jackson's first direct step is to compress a small-sized rubber form and insert it into the puckered throat. The rubber upon expanding stretches the throat slightly. Soon as the throat accommodates itself to the stretch. Dr. Jackson repeats the process by inserting a core of larger diameter. "The treatment," said he last week, "is highly successful...
...which can be made hotter than boiling water without melting. Professor Bridgman reasoned that even more fundamental changes might occur in his materials if he could squeeze and twist them at the same time. Therefore instead of letting the vertically opposed cylinders (1¼ in. in diameter) compress the substance directly, he inserted between them a flat, hard steel block, ground microscopically smooth on its upper and lower sides. Between the block surfaces and the cylinder faces are placed specks (one-tenth gram or less) of the stuff to be tested. Straight pressure is applied, squeezing out some...