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...pool table lie 15 round balls. They are closely packed into an equal-sided triangle, five balls to a side. The pack of balls represents any form of matter you please???a crystal of iron, a tum- bler of water, a flask of gas. The balls are atoms or molecules. They are all wobbling very, very fast, and in every direction. You cannot tell which ball is where at any instant. But you, pretending to be a mathematical physicist like Professor Einstein or Professor Raman, can calculate the average place of the average ball at any instant. That is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Englished Light | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...whir of wheels and click of chips, Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts of Reno, survivor of the Old West, declared: "It's all nonsense trying to regulate people's morals by law. For eight years I've been trying to make Reno a place where everybody can do what they please???just so they don't interfere with other people's rights. Now we can do lawfully what Nevada has always done under cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Only Free State | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...took Ambassador Gibson's cue by voting to omit "trained reserves" from any plan for the general reduction of armaments which they may succeed in drafting. Since the Versailles treaty prohibits Germany from having any "trained reserves"?whereas the other Powers may now have as many as they please???the German delegation vehemently protested the Hoover concession, but to no purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bombshells & Concessions | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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