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Robert Hooke, a 17th century British scientist-of-all-trades, first announced the formula that stress set up within an elastic body is proportional to the strain to which the body is subjected by an applied load. He also partially anticipated Newton's law of gravity, published original discoveries...
How brief can bathing suits get? Is it possible that some day they will disappear altogether? John Adam Zehntbauer, who runs the biggest swimsuit company in the nation, quite naturally thinks not; in fact, he is convinced they have already got too brief. As longtime president of Jantzen Knitting Mills...
The British insist that they scrupulously adhere to the U.N. embargo on shipments of war materials, but their assurances leave scope for convenient "exceptions." Whitehall's definition of the term non-strategic is more elastic than the State Department's. Example: Britain regards railroad equipment as non-strategic...
¶Because some of his constituents who wear elastic galluses and garters have broken out in a rash, Congressman James C. Davis of Georgia has introduced a bill to require users of synthetic rubber in girdles, garters and the like to say so clearly on the label. Most manufacturers say...
Schuman's G-Minor Sonata gave her the opportunity to display her considerable technical powers. Despite the composer's maddening instructions ("As fast as possible," he demands at one point in the Rondo, and, a few measures afterwards, "still faster"), the sudden fortissimo outbursts, fast octave scales, and other bravura...