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...becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce the areas of conflict among observed phenomena. Last week U. S. readers of the British scientific journal Nature were apprised of an important reconciliation which Professor Max Born, theoretical physicist of the University of Gottingen, had achieved by juggling mathematical symbols...
...score more U. S. cities trooped into the Chinese Room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one sizzling hot day last week. They took off their coats, loosened their collars, lighted cigars, settled dowrn heavily in brocaded chairs. Mayor Curley, with his shirt sleeves rolled up and sweat trickling down his face, presided over what quickly became an experience meeting about the hardships of being a mayor these dark days...
...brown as leather, leaned over a collapsible campstool tugging at the laces of his chamois slippers. Into the concrete cave of his dressing-room crept the sound of remote applause. A distant rain of handclapping drifted in, and many smells-a realistic mixture of axle-graphite, new timber, horse sweat, ropes, giraffe dung. His laces pulled and fastened, the wiry little man stood up and flexed his fingers, appraised their steely strength. A buzzer sounded from behind a dented locker, a girl's voice called out with cheerful British preciseness...
...Balancing Wallendas still bring sweat from the most jaded pores, are themselves visibly relieved at the conclusion of each performance. Year and a half ago their impossible, top-heavy, quivering pyramid on the high wire brought a scream of horror from 3,000 spectators in Europe when everything toppled. Balancing poles and a chair crashed down into the arena. Two Wallenda brothers caught the foundation wire neatly. Another Brother Wallenda caught it with one hand, caught his sister Dorothy, who was falling clear of any possible support, with his legs, squeezed her in a scissors till the ground crew brought...
...York City was the worst "sweat" spot in the State and its dressmaking industry, employing 50.000 women, was the most "sweated" trade. Unscrupulous employers, with a labor surplus at hand, had battered wages down to the Chinese coolie level. In many a sweatshop the "U. S. standard of living," which the textile tariff is supposed to protect, had declined to a point where workers could subsist only with the help of charity. Girls were sleeping in subways because they could not earn the price of a bed. Hospitals were filling with women who had worked themselves into a state...