Word: viz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...averages markedly significant until they are well above 7.5 per 25. The lumped results of five subjects comprising 13,750 trials show an average of 9. The improbability that these results could occur by chance, Dr. Rhine feels, is equal to the improbability suggested by Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, viz., if an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might accidentally write all the books in the British Museum...
...referring to your article "Jobs & Jews" on p. 12 of the May 21 issue. . . . This should certainly convince all people of our faith that-in spite of previous criticism--your articles are written in a fair unbiased manner. The concluding paragraph in the article, which is worthwhile repeating, viz: ''No hierarchy, indeed, are the Jews of the Administration, but they are by no means insignificant. Their power rests not upon their jobs but upon their great industry, their extraordinary mental ability and their crusading fervor for what they conceive to be the high and remote ideals...
This is a reductio ad absurdum not only for common sense but for the theory of Relativity. Timidly at first but more boldly of late, some astronomers have suggested other possible causes for the redshift, viz. cosmic dust scattered through space or a slowing of light's velocity after millions of years of travel. Once as fervid a believer in the expanding universe as Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. Hubble was ready last week to admit that it might be an illusion. "The cautious observer," said he wryly, "refrains from committing himself to the present interpretation and employs the colorless...
...authentic Belgian scenes, a minimum of stock bombardment pictures and a pleasant understatement in love-scenes and in the gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective...
...means to defiate purchasing power some day by balancing the budget at the expense of a future prosperity. But if he, if Professor Warren, are as discerning as I think they are, they must realize that there is only one reason why the national budget need ever be balanced, viz., to keep prices from rising. And they must, despite their public manifestoes to the contrary, have arrived considerably before their less thoughtful contemporaries at the inevitable conclusion that recovery means the creation and circulation of as great a quantity of money as is compatible with stable prices...