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...Stronger Sex. Man's inability to understand women, says Scheinfeld, is largely biological. The more scientists study the question, the more fundamental differences they find between men & women. Girl babies are generally born five to nine days sooner than boys; they teethe and talk earlier; their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...Detail. The 89 pages given over to wartime Washington are a brief masterpiece of social reporting. No U.S. writer can match Dos Passos' use of the hackneyed, senseless, stupefying jargon of political insincerity. Nor is any other writer so quick to detect the process by which ideas harden into cliches, stock answers, pat remarks as offensive as the slamming of a door...
...JOHN P. HARDEN 2nd Lieutenant c/o Postmaster New York City...
Died. Samuel Harden Church, 85, president of the philanthropic Carnegie Institute since 1914, upsetter of diplomatic apple carts; in Pittsburgh. Gaunt, vigorous Church rose from messenger boy to a Pennsylvania Railroad vice-presidency, was an original Institute trustee. By his indictment of Germany two weeks after the outbreak of World War I, Church became known as the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation. In May 1940, acting for fellow pillars-of-Pittsburgh, Church offered $1,000,000 for the delivery to a League of Nations courtroom of "Adolf Hitler . . . alive...
While testing his metal in alloys (lithium had been used to harden lead, purify copper), Ness noticed that the little furnace did not burn out as soon as expected, discovered that lithium vapor was preventing oxidation of the steel. Then it was found that a little lithium lasted a long time because it was being chemically regenerated from its own oxide by the carbon monoxide present in the fuel gas. This discovery the Patent Office refused to believe until U.S. examiners went to the little brick laboratory in Newark, saw with their own eyes how lithium worked. Then they granted...