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...stationed at Harbin as a "police force." But Russia was not ready for war with Japan last week. There were 100,000 Russian citizens but no Soviet troops in Harbin. Its defense was left to a Chinese general. Ting Chao. with a force of 30,000 men. Moscow remained inert, but the prevailing sentiment that the goings-on at Shanghai were the prelude to more entangled international developments was expressed in a headline in the Pravda, semi-official Moscow news organ: "One against another and all against China." Reports filtered through via Berlin of a great massing of Soviet troops...
...priced, and to try to sell such goods in competition with bright-colored articles made of light materials (such as pressed steel) and sold by advertising not that they are American or German but that they are efficient, inexpensive. Only by realizing, as Edward of Wales profoundly does, the inert, self-satisfied attitude of most British manufacturers does one get the full flavor of H. R. H.'s words. Excerpts from his remarks...
Some busybody at Dr. George Washington Crile's Cleveland laboratory last week revealed the fact that "something amazing and revolutionary had taken place there," that Dr. Crile had synthesized inert chemicals into "something approximating life." Dr. Crile had wanted to save the announcement for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which meets in Cleveland the end of this month. Said he: "I have been frightfully embarrassed by premature publication of this work. We have not reached a point where we can tell whether our experiment will be successful or a failure. I cannot tell how long...
...poultry cars to race in the sixth annual terrapin derby at Ponca City. Their owners chalked identifying numbers on their diamond-panelled backs and put them under a big canvas hoop in the middle of a circle. Up went the hoop as the crowd shouted. Many turtles lay still, inert or stupid. Others began to move at frenzied speed but grew discouraged and lay down or remembered something and went back. A few plodded on to the outer line of the circle. First across, and winner of $7,100 was Goober Dust, owned by Mrs. Cora M. Day of Ponca...
Further supporting evidence suggested was the fact that the famed second law of thermodynamics (which states that man's universe is gradually running down as its energy is dissipated, will eventually be lifeless and inert) has come to be frowned upon. It has been brought...