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Chemical Life. Some decades after Fernel, Galileo with his telescope discovered the immensity of the universe. The profoundest change in science came when Galileo, seeing a stone fall, asked...
Every Briton loves a paradox. Last week the man whom many had begun to call the greatest Prime Minister Britain ever had-whom all conceded to be one of her profoundest initiates in the artifices of rhetoric-was the subject...
...dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class nation; on moral apathy and deafness to change of the middle and upper classes; on the leaders of England ("The profoundest wish of English statesmen of our time was to elude the responsibility of statesmanship"). "Looking ahead, one saw the face of nightmare; looking back, one saw the faces of ghosts...
...idealistic age, whereas during the rest of the term its culture is sensate. They will surely take note of Harvard's sharply stratified society, the two great classes, students and Faculty. They will say, "During the exam period the relationship of these two strata of society undergoes its profoundest change." It is strange they haven't thought of making such a study before this. From the sociologist's standpoint, it has everything...
...Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation of actual sound, from the topmost squeaks of the piccolo to the profoundest groans of the bass tuba. Morose manufacturers adopted the new gadgets in the middle 20s. Electrical recording failed to set the industry on the road to recovery. But it did lay a firmer foundation for the Industry's future growth. It remade a mechanical stunt into a musical instrument...