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Conches, long regarded as an expert on the period and now known to have been a forger. About Louis XVI's lack of virility ("In the 18th Century natural things were still regarded with naturalness") Zweig is perfectly explicit, thinks it a strong reason for Louis's inert downfall...
...neutron, since Cambridge's Dr. James Chadwick discovered it last year (TIME, March 7, 1932), has been considered an electrically inert combination of proton and electron. Two pictures of the combination have developed: 1) the heavy proton and the light electron bound together much like a dumbbell; 2) the electron hugging the proton like an onion peel. Such combinations should knock protons in certain definite directions. With a camera he invented, Yale's Franz N. D. Kurie showed that the behavior of protons recoiling from neutrons did not follow the calculated patterns. Only deduction tenable was that...
...Babbitt," that the author has so portrayed his subject that the reader says: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Of course this is utterly wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very reason. Since the hero, Theodore Bulpington, occupies the centre of the stage to the exclusion of other complete and living...
...Life. Most people are righthanded. Certain sugars are also "right-handed", in that they twist a beam of polarized light to the right. Maybe, suggested Dr. William Hobson Mills of Cambridge, the dexterity of chemicals and people have a common base. To experiment he projected beams of light through inert solutions. Some of the light was twisted to the right, some to the left. Right turns predominated slightly. This may account for the fact that all living things are essentially dissymmetrical, more right-handed than lefthanded...
...plane began spinning out of control. Corporal Torner was about to jump when he saw that the plane was spinning because Pilot Hoffer had fallen ill, was slumped heavily against the joystick. Rather than leave the pilot to die. Corporal Torner climbed into the forward cockpit, dragged the inert body from the controls, managed to right the plane just before it would have crashed. Then he climbed the ship to a safe altitude, practiced with the controls for 15 or 20 min.. made a safe landing on Rockwell Field. When help arrived Corporal Torner was giving first...