Word: differences
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Isotopes and Hafnium. The work of the chemistry prizewinner, Hevesy, was related to the physicists' researches. He studied atoms by means of X rays and isotopes (slight variations in chemical elements which differ from each other only in radiactivity or atomic weight). By X-ray analysis, Hevesy discovered hafnium, No. 72 in the table of elements...
They found that the various strands in a bundle of nerves, like the wires in a telephone cable, differ in the impulses they transmit; that individual nerve cells are "like tubular electrical condensers"; that the impulses of pain depend on the tiniest nerve strands...
...American elections differ from our own; [Americans] have more of the gift for the snappy phrase. . . . Thus we have John L. Lewis describing Sidney Hillman . . . as 'a Russian pants-maker who is trying to take over the rule of the nation.' Who can think of a single good quip by Sir Robert Borden or Mr. Bennett or Mr. King? . . . Who can equal Mr. Ickes' phrase about the youthful Mr. Dewey 'throwing his diapers into the ring,' or his description of Wendell Willkie as 'the barefoot boy from Wall Street...
Champion of the Small. Mackenzie King would like to go down in history as the interpreter of the U.S. to Britain. He has been the most North American minded of Canadian Prime Ministers. He is the friend of Roosevelt and Churchill, has dared to differ with both of them...
...America are not so unique in character as to demand separate philosophies or special techniques of analysis or synthesis. They are like products of the industrial revolutions; all are new and all are without guidance. The chaos of Hamburg and the ravages inflicted on that city by war differ in degree and not in kind from the chaos of ravaged London ; one can die as miserably in the slums of Chicago as in the slums of Istanbul; and the assembly lines which in Detroit made automata of populations are ' yet first cousins to the factories which blacken...