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...broad Southampton Water was pack-jammed with British paddle-wheel steamers made joyously lopsided by passengers crowding near as possible to the Queen Mary. From Buckingham Palace the King Emperor flashed final greetings. From the Stateliest Ship began stately and soul-stirring B.B.C. broadcasts day and night to every remotest corner of the empire...
...them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn't the remotest idea of going through the mess of a divorce. . . . Nine times out of ten a man clings to his wife with both hands and wouldn't part with her for the world, because she is his perpetual alibi...
...Dear Jeff." From Boston youngish T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidge went to Washington to become Undersecretary of the Treasury in March 1934, to lend the New Deal his technical knowledge of finance on the long road of borrowing that lay ahead. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson but only the remotest kin, if any, to Calvin Coolidge, "Jeff" Coolidge, despite his staid New England background, qualified for service in the New Deal by his independence in politics, by his vote for Roosevelt in 1932. In the Treasury his job was figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated...
...rays than the back of the planet, just as a child riding a carousel in the rain should be struck by more drops in front than in back. This small daily variation in the cosmic rays has actually been observed, so Dr. Compton agrees they must come from the remotest depths of space. What is their scientific importance? 1) A cosmic ray impact led to the discovery of the positive electron, a fundamental particle of matter. 2) The geographic distribution of the rays facilitates study of Earth's magnetic field. 3) For laboratory work cosmic rays provide atomic bullets...
Imaginative scientists have cold-bloodedly figured out a number of ways in which the world may come to an end. One of the remotest is thermodynamic equilibrium ("heat-death") of the whole universe. Another which may be only a few billion years off is freezing due to solar exhaustion. One which might happen any day is incineration of Earth by the sun's blowing up as a nova or "new star." Last week in London a less familiar world-finish was suggested before the Royal Institution by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, whose popular appeal derives in large part from...