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...sympathetic rendering of local nature that is characteristic of Lyme exhibits. There are also artists who paint cattle, ballet-dancers, ships. Will Howe Foote's Southcote-Bermuda stands out among the many typical paintings for its imaginative execution. Here and there in the exhibit, one can detect a disturbing hint, a fugitive suggestion of modernism, but such instances are rare and-unLyme-like...
...observer recording the play of light on the mirrors will be able to detect the slightest variation in the velocity of the beams through the longer and the shorter legs of the rectangle. If no difference in the time of the rival beams is perceived it will be apparent that light is not affected by the earth's rotation; in other words, that the ether rotates with the earth...
...from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over it was time to come...
...body is a cunningly devised mechanism to secure happiness underlies this philosophy," continued Dr. Jacks. "Its supporters also believe that the social system is merely a more extensive and complicated contrivance for the mass production of that commodity, happiness. At no point of my bodily structure, however, can I detect the slightest evidence that it was placed there for happiness, but rather to bear heavy burdens and perform irksome operations. Happiness hunting is not worthy of man or woman, and still less of civilization...
...past week was accompanied by rumblings and uncertainty in both Congress and the stock market, and by an unusually large number of annual corporation statements covering the year 1923. Yet, even in the latter, it is difficult to detect any real consistency. While Studebaker and American Locomotive show unusual if not record prosperity, it has been very lugubrious news that has come from Central Leather and Kelly-Springfield. Business is undeniably spotty; very prosperous in some directions, quite the reverse in others. Moreover, in many industries, notably the coppers, it all depends upon which companies one looks...