Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maxwell's Demon could explain the peculiar antics of the coal and grant that hot coals flying about the room might ignite the window shades and the books in the bookcase ["Witchery in North Dakota," TIME, April 24], but really, isn't it a bit preposterous to assume that the dictionary's molecules would coincidentally happen to go in the same di rection at the same time? Has Dr. Gamow figured the odds on such a double accident...
Colonel Purdon, whose appointment from North Dakota placed him in the Military Academy Class of 1900, is a veteran of World War I service, having received his gold leaves one month after reaching France with the 3rd Division...
...mysterious jumping coal at North Dakota's' Wild Plum School (TIME, April 24) proved last week to be in sound accord with the scientific principle of increasing entropy (i.e., that the odds are trillions of trillions to one against lumps of coal spontaneously making little leaps). It was all a hoax, compounded of the pupils' legerdemain and the teacher's myopia...
...Navy and the hard-pressed Marines who had landed on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been cut to pieces...
Disorderly Demon. Such was a strange story that came out of North Dakota last week. By an odd chance, it coincided with publication of a scientific work suggesting that it was remotely possible that Teacher Rebel and her pupils had seen what they said they had seen...