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...Puritans probably had a better time than the Rotarians at that. The Pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right which most of our free citizens exert in an inept and usually futile fashion, and if we may assume Professor Hocking wrote his speech after a visit to a night club it is easy enough to get the point of his remarks. --N. Y. World-Telegram
Solar Sideswipe. Sir James Jeans is mainly responsible for widespread acceptance of the theory that, some billions of years ago. a star passed close enough to the sun to exert a powerful gravitational attraction upon it. drew out long streamers of hot gas which condensed and cooled to become the Earth and the other planets. At Blackpool, Sir James said that a colleague had recently pointed out to him that this theory failed to account for the fast rotation speeds of the big outer planets, which have short days of about ten hours. The astronomer indicated his readiness to abandon...
...hand symbolizes a matter of immense importance to biology. Organic substances are rich in hydrogen. Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California, whose huge apparatus produces a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second, finds that on the white blood cells of rats neutrons exert ten times the destructive effect of X rays of equal intensity. As laid down last month in the American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, the biologic neutron problems now confronting science are these...
...against stiff competition from the revitalized Minneapolis Star which seems to be running away with the northwest's newspaper show. . . . Mr. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune is interested in many things and . . . appears to be too busy to notice a changing social order. ... St. Paul papers exert little influence in Minnesota and are not a factor...
...Mark Staithes and Brian Foxe, his first mistress, Mary Amberley who is Helen's malicious, unscrupulous mother, Beppo Bowles, an aging homosexual, all appear and play their parts in forming the combination of interests, prejudices, dislikes, inhibitions, standards, that make up Anthony's character. Sometimes they merely exert a negative influence, as when Anthony recoils in disgust at the spectacle of Beppo's humiliation. Sometimes their influence is destructive, as when Mary Amberley persuades him to seduce his friend's sweetheart, causes his friend's suicide. But each incident exacts its influence or leaves...