Word: diffusionism
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In this week's [July 25] swell TIME write-up of the Hughes flight was a discussion of the rubber life raft with bottled carbon dioxide for quick inflation. Carbon dioxide happens to be a bad actor as soon as it smells rubber. . . . Its rate of diffusion through rubber...
I thought if Mr. Hughes anticipates going life-rafting again he might like to know about that coefficient of diffusion.
The first 290 pages, explaining the tangled circumstances of the family inheritance, are dull. The next 200 pages are better. The emotional, shrinking, 15-year-old Laurent Pasquier discovers that his father is keeping a woman, calls on her to ask that she give up the old man. When he...
For the University to pay no attention to its labor relations, so long as they are no worse than those outside, means that Harvard accepts the present state of industrial relations without question. Herein the University is discovered to be hiding from its right hand what its left hand is...
Had he looked beyond his own lifetime and remembered the old saw about "three generations from shirtsleeves to shirt-sleeves," he might have expected that his descendants would fight over his money and that by diffusion if not dissipation the Leiter millions would some day become a memory.