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...them. "I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils." When the Tories walked out to protest one Labor bill, Bessie (in the words of one reporter) "rose from her seat and made a few steps forward, then a few steps backward. She then arched her body and minced across the floor of the House with one hand on her hip." "A sorry degradation of democracy," one newspaper called it. But Bessie churned...
Family to Support. Einstein's family lived in Bavaria, where his father sold electrical goods. Albert was born in Ulm, in 1879. As a child he would make up songs, which he chanted in his room. But at school he was shy and backward, and his parents wondered whether his brain was up to par. When he was twelve, he got a copy of Euclid's Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant...
...fellows in the rain," a friend advised, "'causes the little ones catch cold too easily." Clocker did and lost $12. "Play your favorite number and then work backward through your family's middle names," another friend advised. Poor Clocker. He dropped...
...biology is to learn as much as possible about photosynthesis. If the process could be made more efficient, the world's food supply would take a large jump. Since photosynthesis depends on the energy of sunlight, it stops when a plant is in darkness. In fact it runs backward. A plant respires (breathes) like an animal, absorbing oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide, and biologists have assumed that the plant respires in sunlight, too. No one could prove it, however, because the effect of respiration (CO2 given off) is masked by the effect of photosynthesis (CO2 absorbed). The difficulty...
...same work as long as they can get away with it. Under this kind of reasoning we should also abolish the federal minimum wage law [under which the minimum is 75? an hour]. If Judge Holtzoff's philosophy prevails, we shall have taken a long step backward toward the sweatshop and the slums...