Word: demonism
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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...
...stride. He has an inherent sense of balance and proportion on the ground as well as in the air which this correspondent believes is so well rooted nothing will upset it. ... He has a touch of iciness ... of truly Arctic proportions. . . . But this kid is a 'speed demon'. . . . Numerous white hairs have been caused by his jeep-driving. . . . [He] apparently has a notion that cars were made to travel on two wheels...
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...
Theoretically, although the odds are trillions of trillions to one, such spontaneous activity is possible. The notion was first suggested by the late great Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, and physicists speak of it as "Maxwell's Demon." It is based on a fundamental law of thermodynamics known as "the principle of increasing entropy" (i.e., disorder...
Next day the Major shot down his first enemy plane. Life grew brighter. He shot down some more. The exultant Major got kill after kill. Last week he flew his "Little Demon" over Frankfurt and shot down an Me-109 and an FW-190. They were his 17th and 18th victories and they made 27-year-old Major Beckham top-ranking ace in the European Theater of Operations...