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Merry-Go-Round: The drive to oust Harry Woodring as Assistant Secretary of War is becoming more intense. Spearhead of the drive is the general staff and its chief, General Douglas A. MacArthur. General Staff officers have laid down almost an ultimatum that Harry Woodring goes out. General: Meaning . . . that plaintiff was guilty of disloyalty and mutinous conduct, one of the most serious offenses in the Articles...
...called "stinks'' by schoolboys and signified invention to most grownups, physics, chemistry and astronomy were distinct branches. Today physics not only encompasses the whole of the other two sciences but has confiscated and developed for its own purposes a third-pure mathematics. Modern physics is the spearhead of man's effort to discover and describe the essential nature of the universe...
...spearhead is triangular. The two faces which meet at the attacking point are experimental physics and mathematical physics. Men on the experimental front are generally grouped under captains. A British veteran of 30 years and the accredited proponent of matter's electrical structure is the captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France...
Interpreters- Third side of the physical spearhead is the clouded, retreating face seen by the world of common men. Here are ranged the handful of interpreters who tell plain citizens what is going on up near the attacking point. Some are lay observers with scientific grounding like Bertrand Russell and J. W. N. Sullivan. Now and then physicists on one battlefront or another pause to deliver philosophical interpretations. Thus on the mathematical front Dr. Planck, now an enthusiastic Nazi, year ago published a book on the nature and limitations of physical science. On the experimental front pious Dr. Millikan...
...battle now raging between the Cambridge School Teachers, and (as far as we can make out) everybody also in Cambridge, including the Mayer, City Council, people, parents and pupils, the real spearhead of the teachers' battalion is an organization quaintly described is an organization quaintly described as the "C.T.B.E.S.R." Even in an age of abbreviations this easily establishes a record. Translated, it means "The Cambridge Teachers Bureau of Educational and Statistical Research...