Word: equilibriums
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...July 15] issue of TIME from tender-skinned clerical brothers, chiding you for the very thing which makes TIME so good-its fine, fearless frankness. A fortnight ago the magazine was overdue and I had to buy a copy from the newsstand, in order to maintain my Friday equilibrium. Of course I often take issue with what you print, and sometimes you make me mad. I am glad you do upset me: such agitation is necessary for a sane, decanal existence. So keep on being natural and racey-and even spicey. The country needs you, and most...
...evening at Boston's palaces of refreshment left its marks upon my equilibrium when, driving away from one of the houses in search of a final noggin, my progress down Memorial Drive was interrupted by an M. D. C. squad car, equipped complete with two officers and radio. An unaccountable glow of happiness had compelled me to dash with elan through a yellow light, which happiness the officers did not seem to share. In reply to their greeting inquiry as to whether I wanted to pay a hundred dollar fine, I parried that I had but two dollars...
...reorganizations of energy are possible but always at the expense of a little greater disorganization. In such wise the total energy must go on being shuffled until no further shuffling is possible and its distribution is completely chaotic. Then the Universe will be a "uniform featureless mass in thermodynamic equilibrium"-a warmish, formless soup of aimless atoms and radiation in which nothing ever happens and Time, having lost every shred of meaning, rolls wearily on to infinity...
...into an even worse state than Eddington's featureless mass, finally resurrected it. In Dr. Swann's vague soup there was not a particle of matter, all of it having been turned into radiation according to Einstein's sinister little equation, E = MC 2 . His thermodynamic-equilibrium Universe was therefore a vast sea of electromagnetic vibration, nothing more...
...expenditure can be transferred to the future for payment, the amount of deficit that the country can stand now is of some concern. Everyone is agreed that there is a limit. Scales have been broken heretofore by being overweighted. We should realize that the abstract definition of the lexicon, "equilibrium, steadiness, stability" is there because it has concrete, practical applications...