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...John L. Monte of Pennsylvania; "Structure in Liquids" by G. E. F. Lundell, Chief, Chemistry Division National Bureau of Standards; "Labor Law" by the Hon. Robert B. Watts, General Counsel National labor Relations Board; "One Hundred Years of Catalysis" by Hugh S. Taylor of Princeton; and "The Vitamin-B Complex" by Leopold Cerecedo of Fordham. A symposium on earthquakes and the structure of the earth will feature talks by Captain Nicholas Heck, chief of the division of Seismology, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and by Victor F. Hess, Nobel Prize winner in Physics...
...Scientists do not try to visualize the atom; its mechanics are too complex, too alien to the familiar things of life. Laymen can visualize it after a fashion by imagining a heavy nucleus composed of protons and neutrons clumped together sur rounded by a sort of throbbing mist of electrons...
...this play, O'Neill does not strive after the unintelligible as he did in the "Great God Brown," latest production of the Dramatic Club. There are no masks, nor any complex symbolism to confuse the undergraduate. It is a perfectly straightforward account of a Negro who sets himself up as Emperor over a West Indian island and proceeds to squeeze the natives of all their money. The first act, which moves a trifle slowly, finds the place empty of all the natives with only the Emperor and his white friend, Smithers. As the act closes the throbbing of a drum...
...jungle, like a body, is a complex organism constructed of many parts which interact, which can be grouped and are yet dependent upon one another just as the skeleton, the nervous system, the blood . . . and other systems are in an animal. A bit of jungle breathes and grows and reproduces itself like a great animal." This is the thesis of Ivan T. Sanderson's new book, Living Treasure (Viking...
...Living Treasure Sanderson describes his little lizards and mice, not only with words but with his own drawings, which are artistic works of science. His interest in ecology-the study of the relation, always complex, between each animal and its environment-makes his book not merely a description of loathly and lovely beastlings from Jamaica and Yucatan but a picture of a darker and grander organism of which they are parts...