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That seemed to be precedent enough. The discriminatory clause in the Association's deed, said Justice MacKay, was "offensive to the public policy. It appears to me to be a moral duty to ... repel [such provisions] as fissiparous tendencies which would imperil national unity." His ruling: the discriminatory clause and all others like it (involving millions of dollars' worth of property in Ontario) were henceforth void...
...Union is a collection of Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's wartime speeches. It begins with a broadcast made shortly after the Germans invaded Russia. It is devoted chiefly to explaining why Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and why the Red Army was not ready to repel the Nazis ("Of no little importance in this respect is the fact that fascist Germany suddenly and treacherously violated the Non-Aggression Pact she had concluded in 1939 with the U.S.S.R. . . . Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wishing to take the initiative of breaking the pact, could not resort...
Molecular Beam. Stern and Rabi tackled the question: what holds the nucleus of an atom together? Its protons have positive charges which repel each other, yet the nucleus as a whole possesses a magnetic force that keeps them from breaking loose. Nuclear magnets are so small that for a long time no one knew how to measure them. But at Hamburg, where Rabi worked with Stern as a graduate student, Stern discovered...
Meanwhile, Nazi air squadrons made pinprick night attacks. They harassed beachheads occasionally, kept convoy gunners alert to repel assaults for which Berlin claimed good results...
...this work on weapons proceeds under the supervision of President Conant. Besides this work, the OSRD is busy with advanced problems of military medicine, and is attempting to solve such problems as mass production of penicillin, development and testing of substances which will repel sharks, barracuda, and jelly fish, treatment of gas casualties, and development of methods to make drinkable water out of sea water...