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Modern radium extraction is a highly complex process, started with big ovens, reaction vats, filter presses and decanters, working down to delicately controlled processes in vessels hardly larger than thimbles. When the concentration of radium is as high as 1%, trained chemists take over the job, wearing protective gloves and clothing and working intermittently to avoid injury from the potent gamma, beta and alpha rays. The final product is not pure radium but 90 to 94% pure radium bromide...
...complex intrigue behind the scenes, while sergeants-at-arms were struggling on the Chamber stage with irate but inconsequential legislators, the efforts of the Communists to get something Moscow really wanted in return for their support penetrated via new French Premier Chau-temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must...
Jokes like these, peculiar to the Marx Brothers, are somehow as funny on the screen as they are unfunny in print. A Day at the Races, which took a year to make, is happily distinguished from previous Marx pictures in that it contains more of them. A wild, complex, totally implausible fable about a run-down sanatorium, its impudent porter (Chico), an imported horse-doctorphysician (Groucho) and the steeplechase in which a speechless jockey (Harpo) gets the money to pay off the sanatorium's debts through his brilliant ride on a horse who hates the gambler who is trying...
...matter how stalwart is your faith, how firm your grasp on what you yourself believe to be the significant aspects of human existence, you require something more to live an active and self-directed life in this complex modern world. A man requires an education commensurate with the intellectual burdens he is to carry. A man must have the ability to deal with the situations he is to face, and today these situations lost intellectual capacity as well as character. Courage and integrity are as essential as ever but they have need of powerful allies. Unless a man's character...
...rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...