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...fully effective in combat remains to be seen. Given the current low esteem of the military in much of the nation, they have very little choice but to move in the directions they have chosen. Like so many parts of the American historical experience, this movement, too, is an experiment???risky, unprecedented, but rich with promise. If the U.S. military can significantly reform itself, there is no reason why other less rigid and authoritarian American institutions in Government, education and business cannot succeed as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Humanizing the U.S. Military | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...purpose of this great project is experiment???experiment that deals with the Einstein theory. Chicago University, endowed by John D. Rockefeller, has had the money to obtain the best equipment, both in men and material, for experimental purposes. One of the men is the famous Physics Prof. Albert Abraham Michelson, who not so long ago measured the star, Betelgeuse, although he has other equally famous research and theories to his credit. The object of this new experiment is best explained in the words which one of the experimenting physicists used to simplify the idea of the experiment for the understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein Again | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...years ago, at the time when the discovery of cold light?after seven years of experiment???was discussed by the American Philosophical Society, it was pointed out that if the product could ever become marketable, it could be supplied at 10% of the cost of hot light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cold Light? | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

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