Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California and Menzel of Harvard showed that the difference would be erased if one atom of hydrogen in every 4,500 had a nucleus twice the weight of the common nuclei. Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute found some curious magneto-optic effects in hydrogen which he chose to explain by the presence of a double-weight isotope...
Among the others who have agreed to speak are Harry W. Laidler, who will join Norman Thomas in discussing socialism: the Honorable John Dickinson. Assistant Secretary of Commerce speaking on the New Deal: Max Eastman, author and editor, who will explain communism, and Seward Collins, editor of the American Review, whose topic will be Pascism...
Gortrude Stein will probably explain why she has submitted the English language to such uneasy nightmares when she speaks before the Signet Society at eight o'clock this evening at its clubhouse, 46 Dunster Street. Her topic will be "Grammar and Poetry...
...Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like a modern St. Paul, Sir James has taken it upon himself to preach the Gospel abroad, to explain the groundwork of theory which makes the work of Dirac and his peers possible. Last week appeared the newest Jeans book, Through Space and Time,* into which the 57-year-old astronomer and mathematician has packed the fundamental things 1934 Science knows about the Universe. Sir James has made his story...
Many thinkers have not been able to explain knowledge of the world with Mr. Chase's facility. Educators, moreover, persist in teaching what he would call the impractical arts but the students versed in this learning and training by its discipline are not likely to approach current problems with the confidently preconceived prejudices of many of our realists. If intellectual understanding and unbiased thinking are the products of such an education it is the kind of training modern youth desires...