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...than a scientist, Interpreter Sullivan puts his meaty subject in a nutshell, then cracks the nut. In no uncertain terms, Author Sullivan states the findings, seekings, final uncertainty of modern science. From Pythagoras to Einstein he traces its development: from philosophy through magic and materialism to its present indeterminate flux. Modern scientists, says Sullivan, are really estheticians in disguise. Science's chief fascination to them is "because it provides the contemplative imagination with objects of great esthetic charm." To take Science as a religion is a mistaken act of faith from which agnostics have still to recover. Science...
Stations in the farflung line will use identical instruments, to measure wind currents on Earth and high above, to observe clouds and Northern Lights. They must study sunshine, moonshine, skyshine. They will take the temperature of air, earth, water. They will detect characteristics of the Earth's magnetic flux. New will be the research into the nature of radio reception everywhere...
From New Zealand's not quite so handsome Chief Delegate Joseph Gordon Coates a similar blast was momentarily expected. But with the entire Conference in a state of preparatory flux the Mother Country quietly managed to keep her end up. She wangled her Secretary for War, Viscount Hailsham (famed when he was Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg), into chairmanship of the Conference's first and most important working group: the Committee on Empire Trade Promotion...
With contemporary life in its present state of flux, provincial thought and bad government are up for trial. It is not impossible that a forthcoming readjustment will bring a greater competence and honesty to government and a new foresight to business...
...cryolite, which means "frost stone," was a mysterious kind of ice. It looks like ice, melts readily in a candle flame into something which especially puzzled Eskimos because it is not water. Found in Greenland, cryolite is a compound of fluorine, sodium and aluminium, is used commercially as a flux in smelting aluminium...