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...photosynthesis as picturing the known essence of the mechanism of this process. He also wants to learn the molecular inwardness of the matter, the kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers at muscle fibers in electron microscope pictures, though this kind of model has had brilliant uses for some purposes. On the other hand he knows in a practical way, as the logician knows, that reasoning by analogy from dynamical...
...Civil War provides the nexus...
...Cash Nexus...
...longer startling news that 56-year-old Murray Garsson and 71-year-old Andy May had been up to their eyeballs together in a sour business deal. The Meadmen had already developed plenty of evidence that Andy May was the busy mentor of the Garsson brothers' nexus of paper-built munitions companies, that it was fairly common talk around the Gars-sons' Washington office that packets of $1,000 and $3,000 were sent up The Hill to handy Andy (TIME, July...
...Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The knowledge that British troops were garrisoned in Greece, that American units were still stationed in Iceland, likewise silenced criticism of the presence of Russian forces in Azerbaijan. But as the Big Four powers move crab-fashion away from their peripheral problems towards the nexus of all the problems of the peace--Germany interpretation has given way to savage criticism, and attack. With the focus of attention centered on Germany, the foreign policy of the Soviet Union has grown so alarmingly mysterious and incomprehensible as to cause a major defection in the ranks...