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Capt. T. J. J. See, Government mathematician and astronomer at the Mare Island naval base (San Francisco, Cal.), has been conducting exhaustive experiments and computations upon-Nothing. Greater men than he have done the same, and he has been utilizing their findings - Sir Isaac Newton (gravity), Pierre Simon LaPlace (astronomy), Sir Christopher Wren (architecture). Nothing is important, for it permeates and envelops Everything. It would be nice to know definite things about it, what it is and does. Last week Capt. See announced something about Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nothing | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...mankind's internal hemorrhage. As soon as possible, she went away with her mother and St. Mawr. Rico wanted St. Mawr shot or castrated, but Lou got him away to Texas-where he shed his deity on the wide, empty plains and made advances to a tall Texas mare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Primal* | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

Beat, the slow tide came in across the slippery stones; it drowned the dead mare's muzzle and sluggishly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Headlands | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

They tasted blood; the mare with four slim hooves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Headlands | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...industry, as in government, the old motto "In union there is strength" is popular and sometimes true. American Sugar Refining became interested in acquiring the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey. Unfortunately, politicians had previously made a mare's nest out of the alleged "Sugar Trust," and by a decree in United States vs. American Sugar Refining Co., the matter of future merges of this company had taken on a political and legal aspect. Prior to 1911 American Sugar Refining had owned National Sugar Refining, but was compelled by the courts to dispose of its holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sugar Merger | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

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