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Brother Murray Edes, who holds the record for inquiring visits to the orderly room, has a new invention to supplant his motor that revolves around the shaft--a frictionless engine that he plans to patent some day. As yet the details haven't been revealed, but the many noises emanating from A-33 give promise of something spectacular in the near future...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...pieces of research a number of studies of the psychoneuroses have been completed. It has been possible, for instance, to bring about marked improvement in several refractory cases of compulsion neurosis. Such intimate contacts with the real world are good antidotes for occasional excursions into the metaphysical voids of frictionless thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...years ago the Atlantic Monthly asked the question, "How can a man get off a frictionless plane?" It was a Harvard professor who supplied the only satisfactory answer when he replied: "The only way to get off to the north is to spit to the south...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PROFESSOR FOILED ANCIENT ASKERS OF ANOTHER | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

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