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Last week as hundreds of the nation's scientists journeyed home from the midwinter convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, physicists were excited and disturbed because doubt had been cast on the constancy of m. The doubter was Professor George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey of Washington University (St. Louis). In a specially arranged speech after the close of the meeting, he urged that m be considered a variable, offered experiments to back up his view...
Most prominent doubter of Bardstown's favorite story was the late Young E. Allison of Louisville's historical society, the Filson Club. Historian Allison's points: 1) Louis Philippe was notoriously stingy; it is doubtful whether he would so generously remember Bishop Flaget who presented a purse of other people's money. 2) Bishop Flaget called on Louis Philippe in France between 1835 and 1839, was received coldly. 3) The Congressmen who introduced the tariff-exemption bills may unwittingly have been quoting rumor; besides a report of the Congressmen's speeches there are no governmental...
Other X supporters: Dr. John Jackson of Greenwich (England) Observatory. who at first was a doubter; Dr. John Anthony Miller of Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College...
...concise history of Prohibition in the U. S. Professor Fisher is a veritable Gene Tunney to the wet. First, he twists the ear of the doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium," and then he lays the doubter flat with 38 impressive charts charting the wonders the 18th Amendment has wrought. All evils-new recruits for the army of drunkards, per capita consumption of alcohol, juvenile delinquency, crimes against chastity, arrests in disorderly houses, profanity, deaths and insanity due to alcoholism-have decreased since...
...principles of the Allied cause, an accomplishment which came just in time to knit up loose ends of the national fabric in more Allied countries than one. He interpreted humanity's task in a way that solidified public opinion the world over and made it harder for every cynical doubter to do the Kaiser's work...