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...chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were not trying to be confusing but to obtain the best possible description of what Lord...
When withering and decomposition started, The Bronx botanists cut off parts of the plant which they prepared for a pickling process involving chromic and acetic acid, alcohol, xylol and melted paraffin. The pickled pieces will be sliced .005 millimetres thin with a microtome, stained for study under the microscope. One thing the scientists especially hope to learn is the mechanism of Amorphophallus titamim's titanic stench...
...rren, Switzerland, where Europe's best skiers were racing for the Arlberg-Kandahar trophy, Germany's Rudi Cranz and France's Emile Allais walked up the hill together. Said Cranz: ''You haven't enough paraffin on your skis." Replied Allais: "I haven't any paraffin." said Cranz: "Take this. I have plenty." Cranz had just won the first heat of the slalom-through a zigzag, flag-marked course-in which Allais had finished third...
Cranz won the second heat also but Allais, with Cranz's paraffin on his skis, contrived to finish second, clipping four seconds off his previous time. This, added to his second place in the downhill race the day before, gave Allais, 26-year-old baker's boy, a first in the combined event to add to the International Ski Federation's World Championship he won last month at Chamonix. To generous Rudi Cranz. who finished eighth in the downhill race, fourth in. the combined event, went the consolation of watching his older sister Christl, world...
...always a good thing to carry a piece of paraffin along on a tour, as the snow texture is liable to change unexpectedly at any time; thus if you have waxed for dry snow (mix and very smooth surface) and you run into wet snow, by rubbing a rough coating of paraffin over the other wax it will enable the skis to glide freely...