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Cohn runs the Lab with octopus-like efficiency and inspires his helpers to work long hours by his own almost tireless example. He seems to exert direct control over almost all of the lab, including the design of pamphlet covers. Believing that scientific information should be released to scientists first, he refuses to give press interviews or allow members of his staff to be quoted on scientific matters...
Hunger, Singh asserted, is the chief ally of Communism. He mentioned two ways in which the United States can help fight famine. First, he said, the U.S. could exert pressure on the "reactionary governments" of South Asia to effect some overdue land reforms, and second, the U.S. can give direct aid in the form of food...
...rolls and the results of recent state and national elections, Party labels do not appear on the ballot. The leading candidates for municipal office are invariably Democratic. Republicans could not elect one of their men as mayor with the help of Aladdin's Lamp, but they can and do exert considerable influence as to what Democrats are elected--frequently having an obvious balance-of-power. It was only with solid Republican backing that Secretary of Labor Tobin and Mayor Hynes have been able to defeat former Mayor Curley in recent elections. It is difficult for a Democrat to be elected...
...tongue in his cheek as usual-yet as usual his enunciation of the home truth was unimpaired. To get the marrow out of the masterpiece, it is pretty necessary to follow the dog's example, and in modern times, rather few readers, all in all, have cared to exert enough jaw for that. Rabelais has been put aside, largely untasted, on the snap judgment that he is, as Voltaire said, a "drunken philosopher" who wrote "an extravagant and unintelligent book . . . prodigal of erudition, ordures and boredom." The book which Rabelais merrily dedicated to "Drinkers and . . . Syphilitics" has become...
Theoretically a piston worked by a hydraulic press could exert "any desired pressure." However 20,000 atmospheres was formerly the limit, even when using heavy cylinders of heat-treated steel. Strengthening methods can raise this to 30,000 atmospheres, but the piston also reaches its limit at this pressure...