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Much has already been learned about the properties of matter at temperatures close to the utmost cold. Lead, for example, shows superconductivity, which means that an electric current passing through it keeps on flowing after the circuit is broken. It is unlikely that another fraction of a degree will bring any startling revelation. But the remote chance that it might keeps the low- temperature men pressing indefatigably closer & closer to the inaccessible bottom...
...Shapley believes that this star may be of the utmost importance on account of the powerful equipment new available at American observatories for spectroscopic analysis...
...English philosophical radicals, Marx, dialectical materialism, surplus value. In the wide conclusion he draws from his wide subject he considers nothing so parochial as a U. S. New Deal. But in his capacity as observer he reports that economic nationalism is the order of the day. "Organization to the utmost within the State, freedom without limit in the relations between States." Only international organization will save the world from calamity. "The same causes that produced war in 1914 are still operative, and, unless checked by international control of investment and of raw material, they will inevitably produce the same effect...
...Berlin last week shiny-pated Dr. Ludwig Müller once again laid out a fresh cassock. At last, after repeated postponements, the ecclesiastical top-sergeant of Hitler's Germany was to be consecrated as Reichsbischof. But first, to extract the utmost glory from the occasion, Dr. Müller planned a big pre-consecration rally. Counting on a crowd of 60,000, he had loudspeakers rigged up in the Lustgarten between the old Imperial Palace and the Protestant Cathedral. Squads of police would be on hand to manage the pack. There would be a demonstration at the Kroll...
...them exhibited either the grossest lack of seamanship or the utmost cowardice. Chief Engineer Eben S. Abbott, awakened in his quarters, went to rouse his first assistant. The first assistant was already on his way to his fire station in the engine room. That was also Chief Abbott's station but he did not go there. Instead he telephoned down to see how things were going. He then toured the ship to inspect the fire. Soon he met the first assistant on his way up from below. By this time Chief Abbott had decided that "it was every...