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...proton as a unit) and the ratio of the electric to the gravitational force between proton and electron. These two Eddington values worked out at 10 78 (10 multiplied by itself 77 times) and 10 39 . Although, as Dirac says, "Eddington's arguments are not always rigorous," they nevertheless gave him "the feeling that they are probably substantially correct in the case of the smaller numbers." But 10 78 and 10 39 looked so large that Dirac had difficulty regarding them as constants...
...significance of these interests ... or the fact that although many of such special agents . . . were the issuing bankers for the bonds in question, and despite their professed recognition of a moral obligation to attempt to obtain for the bondholders the best that was possible under the circumstances, they nevertheless sought and obtained better treatment of their claims than those of bondholders who may have looked to such issue houses for protection...
...house. By Fall River standards of those days, Mr. Borden was a rich man. Two days before the inquest, Lizzie burned up a dress. Her testimony at the inquest-she was never put on the stand during her trial-was contradictory on some points, evasive on others. Nevertheless, since there was only circumstantial evidence against her, she was acquitted. The trial (1893) was a national sensation, even eclipsing the Chicago World's Fair. Many a newspaper reader thought Lizzie innocent, but the majority in Fall River thought otherwise. One of the many current jokes about the case...
...passed the language requirements by the end of their second year--but it is not. There is continually a controversy as to which activities the probation axe ought to fall upon, and many believe that the blew of the axe ought to be postponed for longer than two years. Nevertheless, when it examines the patience with which University Hall treats the deliquents, the Council cannot reasonably ask for less discipline, unless it favors no discipline...
...first used by the Germans late in 1915 and then adopted by the Allies, while the Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale odor, efficient anti-phosgene, masks were developed, and wet weather weakened its effect, made it visible. Author Prentiss does not regard its future chances highly...