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...Ogden's invention of an 850-word vocabulary called Basic English. Indicative of the complexity of semantics is the fact that while Ogden is an orthologist and psychologist and Richards is an esthetician, important contributions have been made by a Polish mathematician, Count Alfred Korzybski, and a Harvard physicist, Percy Williams Bridgman. Semantics ranges from the equator of Basic English through the lush tropics of political bunkum to the North Pole of James Joyce's word-coining...
...observation that current would pass in only this one direction through the tube was first put to work thirty years ago by J. A. Fleming, an English physicist, who saw a possible use for this feature in the detection and rectifying of radio signals, then being pioneered by Marconi...
Died. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, 79, Hindu physicist and botanist; of a heart attack; at Giridih, India. Famed for his assertion that plants have hearts, nerves, emotions, intellections, he demonstrated by experiment that every stimulus-light, electric shock, alcohol, drugs-affects plants as well as animals...
About the same time in Aberdeen, Physicist George Paget Thomson, able son of Sir Joseph John, obtained the same result by a different method. He used much more high-powered electrons, around 50,000 volts. These were able to penetrate the crystalline structure of a film of metal one-millionth of an inch thick. After emerging they were still strong enough to impress a photographic plate, and Thomson obtained the first pictures of diffraction rings created by electrons...
...started last year, when Assistant Coach Bill Neufeld was having lunch with Doctor Book of the Hygiene Department, and Harvard Physicist Victor Guilleman. Neufeld was curious as to whether or not there might be some scientific device with which to determine the proper warm up for a given man for a given man for a given distames...