Word: unevennesses
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...German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist; got eyefuls and skinfuls of U.S. boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism; and in general covered the uneven 20th-century scene with all the mountain-goat agility and twice the aptitude for human pleasure and pain of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd (TIME...
...certain boiler pipes. A corps of chemists, metallurgists, engineers finally figured out the reason. Mercury-with its well-known tendency to hug itself in little globules-was not "wetting" the steel heating tubes in intimate contact. Hence oxygen crept between the two metals and rusted the steel, and the uneven contact led to uneven heating. What was needed was a wetting agent for the mercury. Scientists found it by putting traces of magnesium and titanium in the mercury. Now the mercury covers the tubes as evenly as water. Boiler design was also revised...
...Similarly centers will be numbered in the 50's, while the guards, tackles, and ends will be in the 60's, 70's, and 80's respectively. In addition, all players on the right side of the line will be even-numbered, while those on the left uneven...
WHERE ANGELS DARED TO TREAD -V. F. Calverton-Bobbs-Merrill ($3). Essays on 20-odd (of some 200) North American tries at Utopia which the late V. F. Calverton regarded as most significant. His report is uneven, and his data sketchy but fascinating. His evidence shows that: 1) Many Utopias succeeded until they knuckled their ideals under. 2) The most successful were religious, not scientific, communisms. 3) The destiny of most was determined by the hypnotic influence of an inspired-or maniacal-leader, and changed with his death. 4) Not one dared to meet sexual problems pointblank; even bold Oneida...
Watch on the Rhine (produced by Herman Shumlin). Lillian Hellman, No. 1 U.S. woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes), has written an uneven play concerning Naziism, but it is by far the best on the subject to date. There is not a single Nazi in it. It tells of the daughter of a dead American diplomat (Mady Christians), who returns from Europe to her luxurious, flower-filled old home outside Washington, D.C., bringing with her the German engineer (Paul Lukas) she married 20 years before and their three children. Since 1933 her husband has been...