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...Compton believes in no such firm, almighty Divine Intelligence as do Scientists Einstein and Planck. A student of "indeterminism," he says that "natural phenomena do not obey exact laws.'' Physicists have tested the behavior of the smallest known units of matter and light, only to discover that their movements are unpredictable. This "complexity of small-scale events," leads Dr. Compton toward resolving the dilemma of freedom v. law, which is "as essential to the welfare of science as it is to the growth of religion." If a little photon of light can move capriciously...
...smallest South American nation- which is also wealthy, salubrious and progressive-played handsome host this week to the Seventh Pan-American Conference...
...lacrimal bone, smallest and most fragile of the face, of one of the boys was abnormal, suggesting, said Professor Wright, that he had ''cried his eyes...
Biggest month's attendance: August, 5,830,000 Biggest day's attendance: Sept. 3, 367,000* Smallest day's attendance: Nov. 9, 20,000 Salutes fired...
...shillings each for tickets. From the proceeds His Grace last month gave ?60,000 ($290,000) to British chari ties, chiefly hospitals. The remaining ?36,000 he distributed as 748 "gifts" to certain ticket holders whom he vowed were not lottery winners. The biggest gift was ?2,000, the smallest ?10. Asked on what system he had selected the 748 beneficiaries, the Duke cheerfully replied, "It was an idea from Heaven...