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...gentleman has played in Harvard life for the last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession to open the ceremonies with a blow of his official sword on the rostrum and the traditional words, "The assembly will now come to order...
...University engineer, the Adams House engineer, the janitor, and the plenipotentiary of the Maintenance Department at a consultation around the hearth yesterday, opined that they could blow away the whole trouble, by putting the fan under the fire. Common Room loungers however were skeptical, saying that the smoke would be blown around them stronger and steadier. We suggest a gas-range...
...Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus and by slowly abolishing their major taxes. No blow has been struck, but the Socialist Party may now be considered dead...
...comedies, Duck Soup has the disadvantage of adding nothing to vary the essential technique of their efforts. It exhibits Chico & Zeppo as usual, Groucho less flatteringly than in Horsefeathers. Admirers of Harpo should be particularly pleased with his horrid actions in Duck Soup. He carries a plumber's blow torch for a cigaret lighter, conducts a wordless telephone conversation by means of horns and bells, irritates a lemonade vendor by doing sleight-of-hand with his straw hat. Good shot: Harpo, impersonating Groucho in order to steal "war plans," trying to convince Groucho that he is a reflection...
...dimensions. It was about this dualist electron that Dr. Heisenberg postulated his famed Uncertainty Principle. The position or velocity of a given electron, he showed, might be determined, never both. Increased precision in one calculation simply magnified the error in the other. This principle of "Indeterminance," a violent blow to the old deterministic laws of Cause & Effect, went unchallenged until two months ago when another German, Professor Max Born, effected a reconciliation of quantum theory with the classical Maxwell equations-whereby, Professor Born claimed, the prediction of both velocity and position was made possible (TIME, Sept...