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Congratulations on your matter-of-fact treatment of the scientific side of the atomic bomb [TIME, Aug. 20]. After having struggled with the Sunday supplement-like nonsense which the newspapers have been printing recently on the subject, it was welcome relief...
...AMERICAN LANGUAGE: SUPPLEMENT I-H. L. Mencken-Knopf...
Author Mencken first intended The American Language: Supplement I to be a small addition to his American Language, soon discovered that his mass of new material had outgrown the parent volume. Many of Supplement I's 739 pages are devoted simply to supporting the thesis of The American Language, i.e., U.S. speech-ways have grown so powerful that they are rapidly reducing to a dialect "the ancient and lovely but now somewhat rheumy language of the British Isles." Readers of the Supplement will find it packed with boisterous Menckenian humor and casual erudition...
...those who then believed Einstein, his equation explained how radioactive metals could keep on shooting out particles and radiation for millions of years, and how the sun could continue shining for even longer ages. It also aroused Sunday-supplement dreams of driving an ocean liner around the world by releasing the atomic energy locked in a cupful of water...
...ground level, a radar beam is scattered by ground irregularities. For this reason, contrary to Sunday-supplement predictions, it is not practical as an anticollision device on autos or railroads...