Word: newtons
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...Newton's Laws of Motion', Professor Black, Jefferson Physics...
...Louis two lawyers have put their skill at the disposal of two rodents-a common or Egyptian mongoose and a slightly larger water mongoose. The lawyers are Cleveland Alexander Newton, one-time (1919-27) Missouri Congressman, and Thomas Cobbs. What aroused them was the fact that the two mongooses, which resembled large nervous rats in their cages at the St. Louis Zoo, had been condemned to death by the U. S. Government. Reason: The Government forbids the importation of mongooses. Although they are valuable in India and Africa as snake destroyers, in the comparatively snakeless U. S. they would...
...Lawyers Newton and Cobbs claimed the Government's case was weak because: 1) the Government could not prove that the mongooses had been imported. They were bought two years ago for $40 each from a reputable animal dealer; 2) both were males, which eliminated any chance of multiplication. While Zoo officials obtained a stay of execution and the lawyers sought the right to defend the condemned, St. Louisans flocked to see a mongoose. Fed on horse, goat and cow meat by Zoo-man George P. Vierheller, the two martyrs grew...
Science is always a lap ahead of popular belief. Newton and Darwin are today high priests of truth to the man in the street. Materialism, once a scientific theory, is now the fatalistic creed of thousands. But materialism, says atom-wise, germ-conscious Haldane,"is nothing better than a superstition, on the same level as a belief in witches and devils...
Freshman hockey--January 8, Arlington; January 11, St. Mark's at Southboro; January 15. Exeter at Exeter; February 5, Andover; February 8, open; February 12, Milton (probably at Milton); February 15, Dartmouth; February 19, Newton; February 22, St. Paul's at Concord; Febru- ary 26, Second University; March 1, Yale at New Haven...