Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing firm, the law obey...
...Compton believes in no such firm, almighty Divine Intelligence as do Scientists Einstein and Planck. A student of "indeterminism," he says that "natural phenomena do not obey exact laws.'' Physicists have tested the behavior of the smallest known units of matter and light, only to discover that their movements are unpredictable. This "complexity of small-scale events," leads Dr. Compton toward resolving the dilemma of freedom v. law, which is "as essential to the welfare of science as it is to the growth of religion." If a little photon of light can move capriciously...
...stockings which the denizens of that patchquilt House hang at Christmas he may be blown back up the Chimney, sky high, bag, and all. A powerful fan is being built under the Adams hearth to make the flames in the unsuccessful fireplace go up, and make the smoke also obey gravity...
Lynching is murder in its most brutal form. You, who are under oath to uphold the law, have given this worst of crimes your complete sanction. You cannot expect such men as Holmes and Thurmond to obey the law if the governor of the state of California does...
...Roman Emperor Maximianus commanded an officer named Victor, a convert to Christianity, to burn incense to Jupiter. Victor not only refused to obey but in a burst of religious fervor toppled over Jupiter's altar, smashed the god's statue. For his deed his right foot was chopped off before he was executed. In the course of time he came to be venerated as St. Victor the Martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Years later his foot, now a relic holy to many a French Catholic, was acquired by the Paris church of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet...