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...port to, is gone. . . . Within the aluminum globule Professor Piccard was almost grudging about the occasional attention he must give to his instruments. He wanted to be at one of the nine window ports, watching the earth drop away, watching the heavens em brace him. ... He found time to jot eloquent notes of what he saw. Excerpts:* "5:34 a. m. Brilliant daylight floods all about us. My young friend Cosyns begins his experiments in connection with the cosmic rays. What are we to discover? We wonder...
...only a dozen second-string newshawks were rounded up.* They found the President standing behind his office desk, Secretary of State Stimson at his elbow. In a low, clipped voice the President began to read from a paper in his hand. The newsmen flipped out pencils and pads to jot down his words. He stopped reading to order: "Put away the pads. The proposal has been typed out for you." The "proposal" was a world-sized plan for major reduction in all forms of armaments (see p. 14). Armies were to be cut one-third above necessary "police components...
Said Prosecutor Kelley: "If Massie killed Kahahawai, why did he use Jones's gun instead of his own?. . . Why, Massie did not even kill Kahahawai." But Prosecutor Kelley in his cross-examination was not able to change a jot or tittle of Lieutenant Massie's story. The officer told how he learned of his own actions : "Mrs. Fortescue said I stood there like a bump on a log. Later they put me in a chair. Jones. . . said I acted like a damn fool...
Composing music for the piano is a laborious, tedious, inefficient process even for composers with retentive memories. They must jot, erase, return to the keys, pause, jot, ponder, try again. In the heat of creation many a composer has irrevocably lost inspirations which flashed through his mind's ear and away before he could capture them on paper. Last week came news of an invention to enable affluent pianists to compose at ease, to capture transient beauty before it eludes memory. The device: "Music Writer." The inventor: Dr. Moritz Stoehr, professor of bacteriology at Mount St. Vincent College...
When distinguished Editor James Louis Garvin had well perused this charge, he wrote: "In the whole farrago, there is not one grain, not one atom, not one little jot nor tincture of truth. No such stipulation exists. The American gentleman concerned is incapable of suggesting any thing like it. The King's subject concerned [Editor Garvin] is known to be among the last men alive to whom such a stipulation could be safely breathed...