Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five years and Mr. Miller found Dictator Mussolini "more mild . . . more genial. . . . His hair has thinned noticeably. . . . Commenting on his obvious appearance of health, I asked Mussolini to permit me to publish his personal rules for conserving his mental and physical health under constant strain...
...fundamental constants of physics, such as c the velocity of light, h Planck's constant, e the charge and m the mass of the electron, and so on, provide for us a set of absolute units for measurement of distance, time, mass, etc. There are, however, more of these constants than are necessary for this purpose, with the result that certain dimensionless numbers can be constructed from them...
Dirac took a short-time scale figure for the age of the universe, expressed it in terms of the atomic constant e²/mc³. The figure turned out to be approximately the same as Eddington's 10 39 . The square of the universe's age would therefore be equal to Eddington's other figure, 10 78 . Armed with these two fine coincidences, Dirac next proposed to dispense with the giant numbers and simply say that the ratio of electrical to gravitational force between proton and electron equals t, the age of the universe, and the amount...
...skating upon the ice. No sooner had she ventured out on her runners than a rude young woman crashed into her, knocked her flat and broke her rib. "With unimaginable wailing of virgins," St. Lydwina was carried back to bed where she remained for the next 38 years in constant agony, relieved only by angelic visions...
Since the picture was intended for mass consumption the comedy is naturally of that level. The constant hammering of a joke does not, however, seem absolutely necessary. The sequences depicting life in a newspaper office are, as usual, somewhat strange. But this is a minor point, for one of the film is done in a serious vein; and the mad antics of city editor Ameche and star reporter Power only add to the zest of the thing...