Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among the human values thus created science ranks with art and religion. In its selfless pursuit of truth, in its vision of order and beauty, it partakes of the quality of both. More and more it is beginning to make a profound esthetic and religious appeal to thinking people. In deed, it may fairly be said that science is perhaps the clearest revelation of God to our age. Science is at last coming into its own as one of the supreme goods of the human race...
...them a copy of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. W. & W. is now in serious financial difficulties. Boston's forces of righteousness are at present headed by slim, white-haired, horn-spectacled John Michael Casey, chief of the city's Licensing Di vision. For 27 years City Censor Casey, who is on record as having said, "Don't you know that Eugene O'Neill never wrote on a decent theme in his life?", has passed on every theatrical offering of the Boston stage. He also licenses peddlers and news boys...
...Whenever vision is suddenly affected by a drug there probably is a methyl radical (CH3) involved. Professor Binz's compound had such a methyl radical. Not worried, he offered to synthesize a more tolerable iodine preparation, soon furnished 5-iodo-2-pyridon-N-acetate of sodium, which he calls Uroselectan and U. S. urologists lopax. Injected in the veins it rapidly collects in the kidneys and shows by means of x-rays the shape of those organs and any stones or malformations there or in the ureters (leading from the kidneys to the bladder...
...living at his native Smiljan. a Croatian village, in what is now Jugoslavia? was something the like of which he had never actually seen. He pictured it curved, pointed at one end, fastened to a string at the other. The child modeled a piece of iron according to his vision and thus had the hook which he needed to catch frogs. Similarly he completely visualized his induction motor, his coils and transformers, all his inventions, before he sketched and constructed them. He has unlimited confidence in his visual inventiveness. He no longer bothers to build, seldom bothers to make notes...
Those who would praise Samuel Mather learn that he dislikes full blown phrases. Rev. James De Long Williamson, his old friend, last week said simply: "Samuel Mather, today we dedicate to the service of mankind an institution that reflects your vision, devotion, sacrifice and generosity." The brief response of Mr. Mather, a religious Episcopalian: "I am thankful for the many blessings that have come to me and for the friends who stood loyally behind me through life...