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...course the personal element of the old system, with its corresponding uncertainty, will be missed at first, but there are other considerations to make it forgotten. The dial telephone is one of the most versatile machines ever devised. It's much more fun to play with while awaiting a call. You can play roulette with it, you can do if one-handed, one-fingered, in fact a man in New York once called a number with his nose...
Three short years ago the formula D20 would have been meaningless to chemists because there was no element corresponding to the symbol D. Now every chemist in the land knows that D2O means heavy water, that D is the symbol for the heavy isotope of hydrogen which Dr. Urey identified in the autumn of 1931 (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) and subsequently named deuterium. Undoubtedly in considering last week's award the Swedish Academy took cognizance of the fact that no discovery in the physical sciences in recent years has stimulated more widespread research than...
...Isotopes are varying forms of the same element, chemically alike but differing in density and atomic weight...
...flagellation of one William Archer, an eminent English dramatic critic who was so imprudent as to publish a book. "The Old Drama and the New," ridiculing the Elizabethan dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer...
...Phillips Endecott Osgood of Emanuel Church and Rev. Dr. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving of Trinity Church announced a Thursday afternoon "Snow Train Service," to begin this week. Rectors of Boston's two largest Episcopal churches, they wish to bring back to church that "large and significant element in the modern community" who are kept away from Sunday worship by "the automobile and the suburban out-of-door week-end." Rectors Osgood and Kinsolving will participate jointly in the "Snow Train Service," so named after the special train on which Bostonians travel to winter weekends in Vermont...