Word: enigmas
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...hypotheses should be avoided. In the light of wave mechanics alone, electrons lost their individualities, melted into a continuous field of negative electricity. But there was strong experimental evidence of "discontinuity," of individuality. For example, single electrons made tracks which could be photographed. Thus the election became a dualistic enigma, dancing weirdly in n dimensions. It was about this dualist electron that Dr. Heisenberg postulated his famed Uncertainty Principle. The position or velocity of a given electron, he showed, might be determined, never both. Increased precision in one calculation simply magnified the error in the other. This principle of "Indeterminance...
...planet by the late Professor Asaph Hall (10 hr. 14 min. 24 sec.), it could not be a drifting cloud, might be a volcanic eruption in a fixed area. To still others a volcano on cold Saturn seemed hardly more imaginable than spontaneous combustion in a snowball.* Still an enigma is Saturn's canker...
...with the less-known figures that Mr. Bradford is most successful. Here the narrative details he supplies are fresher and more interesting, and he is well able to reveal an enigma at least where he cannot explain it. Discussing Talleyrand and Fenelon, two men strikingly similar in temperament, worlds apart in their actual careers, his impartial sympathy for both leaves the reader free to enter sympathetically into their characters. It is high praise for this kind of biography to say that it makes the reader eager to go beyond the information given, and study the characters at first hand...
...house and the radio. But for the house and the radio. But for the freshman who has contributed his check and his girl to the success of the Key's enterprise, who is faced with a dormitory door closed to the slightest suggestion of feminity, it is a true enigma...
...George Arliss is the dean of Hollywood's leading men, as Marie Dressier is the Mother Superior of its heroines. His frugality; his apelike way of walking, with his shoulders stooped and his hands hanging about his knees, make him more of an enigma to Hollywood than Hollywood is to him. He defends it against its detractors, calls it busy, sane. His valet. Jenner, who has been with him for 25 years, brings him tea at 3:30 every day, sees that he quits work promptly at 4:30, says he has never seen George Arliss break a monocle...