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...believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate striving ... he would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this book are not exemplary in the conventional moral sense, but examples of tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger...
...great step came when Newton (1642-1727) gave Space a definite physical reality in his theories of force accelerating bodies, the movement being measurable in reference to a really rigid body. The introduction of "ether" by Faraday (1791-1867) and Maxwell (1831-79) to explain their electro-magnetic field theories was the last great step before Einstein's relativity theories...
...just come in with "young Potts"-Douglas Newton Potts, 19, a promising, first-year man, holder of an ?80 scholarship, leader of a Cambridge dance orchestra. As tutor and pupil entered, they were faced by Detective Sergeant Willis of the Cambridge Police, standing with his large feet well spaced on the hearthrug, as in all proper British crime dramas...
...score of manuscripts from famed authors. Soon the Sun's readers found on the editorial page, "Fannie Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb Recalls:", "Mary Roberts Rinehart Recalls:"- friends of Bob Davis pinch-hitting in his column. The list grew so long-Ben Ames Williams, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Newton Booth Tarkington, Ring W. Lardner, Sam Heilman, Sophie Kerr, Dorothy Canfield, Henry Louis Mencken, Montague Marsden Glass, George Ade, etc. etc.-that the Sun's Bob Davis column promised to become a complete parade of U. S. literati...
...semi-final match. 7-5, 4-6, 9-11, 6-3. This match was started over a week ago at Long-wood, but was halted at the end of the fourth set with the count knotted at two sets apiece. The final and deciding set was played at Newton, ending in favor of the eventual title-winners...