Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maxwell said that two orphan boys resembled each other very much. Albert Einstein hunted around until he found that they were brothers, sons of the-same electro-magnetic mother.
General Theory of Relativity. If a man and an egg drop from an airplane at the same moment they will strike the earth, if there is no air resistance, at exactly the same moment. Such is an effect of gravity. Isaac Newton described the effect well with his laws of...
This time it was about Tycoon Edward Stephen Harkness, whose recent gift of $13,000,000 has made possible at Harvard an adaptation of the Oxford "inner, college" idea (TIME, Jan. 7). Sneered the Lampoon: "Now that Harkness has shelled a sufficient number of berries we have got to put...
It is particularly disappainting to have the Reverend Doctor Streeter congratulating himself on having discovered the sex solution par excellence in the joy of renunciation for its own sake as an admirable example to others. Somehow the logic of renouncing something that is not worth renouncing for one's self...
Loving her, he had married someone else; marrying her, he loved someone else. One almost finds himself sympathizing with poor Alden. This, however, is a pitfall. As one reads deeper into the significance of the picture Miss Bryner is endeavoring to put into real life one realizes that Bennington is...