Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie doll, acts as honorably as a double-crossing spy, throws telephones across the stage, never lets his right-hand man know what his left-hand man is doing, hires, fires, wheedles, fondles, gives his office the dignity of a bargain sale...
Franklin Roosevelt's new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, made his maiden speech before the American Club of London. Said he of the U. S.: "As many of you know, I have been bearish for a year. I feel a little ashamed of it when I see what confidence Europeans have in my country's future." Said Bullish Joe Kennedy of Europe: "There will be no general European war for the rest of this year at least...
...There now are 240 cancer diagnostic clinics throughout the country in which patients may be reasonably assured of complete examination, accurate diagnosis and "the best treatment that can be offered." If a local doctor or hospital does not know the address of the nearest clinic, "write to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Rockefeller Center, New York City...
...Albert Einstein had been long fondling such a notion, readily agreed. Although he now speaks English quite well, Einstein is still reluctant to write in this new language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed on and mapped out in careful detail...
Universe? At present, Einstein does not know whether the universe is finite or infinite. The Relativistic picture of the cosmos is a four-dimensional sphere-or, more exactly, a "hypersphere," since an ordinary sphere can have only three dimensions. The hypersphere is curved, so it must close back on itself and therefore be finite-but only if the curvature is positive. It may be negative, that is, somewhat less curved than a straight line. Negative curvature, which in mathematics simply involves a minus sign, cannot of course be visualized; but if such is the shape of the hypersphere, the universe...