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Festooned with a maze of cables, wires, tanks, cylinders, hand-wheels, steel support frames bolted to the ceiling, a control board studded with dials, the underground laboratory looked something like the inside of a submarine. The Svedberg centrifuge's 7-in. disk rotates at 60,000 r.p.m., has a peripheral speed of about 24 miles a minute, one-third greater than that of Earth at the Equator. Particles whirled at that rate are subjected to a force 250,000 times that of gravity. In short spurts the centrifuge can rotate up to 160,000 r.p.m., exaggerating gravity...
...maze of various systems which have been employed there have developed three general types of play, or so-called formations, which have done much to make the game increasingly interesting. These are generally known as the kick formation, the wingback formation, and the Notre Dame formation...
...recently moved his testing machines from the Massachusetts State College at Amherst to Harvard; the exact locale of the present establishment is the basement of the Cambridge fire house, between Memorial Hall and the Yard, where a formidable wire netting protects from the prying public a maze of glare vision meters, braking reaction machines, and other complicated mechanisms...
About this structure is woven a maze of personal and social problems which seem to have been selected solely in the aim of giving Mr. Behrman opportunity to lampoon radicalism and Freud, two sure-fire sources of sophisticated fun. There is a goodly sprinkling of amusing chatter but the procession moves nowhere, which leaves this reviewer a bit unsatisfied. It would be exceedingly pleasant if one could accept the production as an amusing social comedy but when grave problems are seriously injected, one naturally looks for maturity of thought as well as cleverness of execution. One is thus compelled...
...maze of philosophical, historical, and generally cultural studies which make up the Harvard curriculum, English F stands as one of the few courses whose practical value is obvious. This course, devoted to the art of public appealing, is of especial value to the man who expects to take an active place in the business and professional world. Here, with all the paraphernalia of phonographical recordings of his voice, actual dinners to test out the principles of good after dinner speaking, and instructors trained to detect flaws in the student's method of preparing a speech and in the technique...