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...laws that govern spin temperatures at -K. are not for physics beginners, and ordinary rules of thermodynamics do not work. They lead to the incorrect conclusion that a heat engine operating below absolute zero can do work, e.g., produce mechanical energy, without affecting the temperature of the material that it is ' using as an energy source. Professor Ramsey proposes that one of the thermodynamics laws (among the most sacred in physics) be changed to preclude the possibility of a -K. perpetual-motion machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Colder than Coldest | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...week's end the highly respected 17-nation Organization for European Economic Cooperation roundly criticized Butler's policies as "basically incorrect." For Rab Butler, who once looked like a Prime Minister in the making, an austere winter lay ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Butler in the Kitchen | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...already been built, there are people's democratic countries which have so far taken only the first, though very important, step towards Socialism." Molotov's error lay in the use of one word: foundation. Said he in his confession: "This mistaken for mulation leads to the incorrect conclusion that allegedly a Socialist society has not yet been created in the Soviet Union; [this] . . . does not correspond to reality and contradicts the numerous estimates of the result of the construction of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. given in party documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Harvest Time | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...would be manifestly incorrect to say that the faculty, before General Education, was not interested in teaching, or that there were not already faculty members giving departmental courses in the spirit of general education. "General Education gave members of the faculty the opportunity to do what they already wanted to do," asserts Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and General Education. "If it hadn't, it wouldn't have worked...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Gen Ed: Familiarity Breeds Contentment | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

...professors should be praised for their courage, that it is important to protect individual liberty, that the moral judgements involved are complex and relative. To state however that one can make no generalizations about a professor's patriotic duty to answer questions about past associations with communism would be incorrect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duty and Liberty | 6/17/1955 | See Source »

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