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...particularly emphasized the importance of building mathematically complete theories of atomic structure and of determinating the resulting frequencies. So far as he knew, this had not been done for a single case hitherto. It seems to be wise not to abandon the attempt to explain laws in this way on the basis of an underlying continum of space and time, despite the fact that the quantum theory has been tending in the opposite direction...
...master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...
China has no government properly speaking but is the spoil of military adventurers who march and countermarch up and down tha land in a conglomerate civil war. Noteworthy, this state of affairs makes it impossible for the Powers to abandon the safeguarding of their citizens in China by the principle of extraterritoriality under which foreigners are tried before courts of their own nationals set up in China...
Only two days remain before the University skaters will abandon their conditioning work on Soldiers. Field and take to the ice of the rebuilt Boston Arena. For almost a week now, the University hockey squad has been running near the Stadium under the direction of Captain W. P. Ellison '27, and on Monday afternoon the season will actually get under way on ice. under the watchful eye of Coach E. L. Bigelow...
...that the primary purpose of the impeachment proceedings had been accomplished. Then Senator Charles Curtis moved that the Senate adjourn as a court of impeachment until Dec. 13. Since Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6, the House will have a week to confirm the recommendation of its Managers to abandon the trial of Judge English...