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...With Mersenne,* we would favor a numberalmost a million times as large, viz...
...TIME, Dec. 10 you tell a very interesting story of the attempt to loot the Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co., of Springfield, Ill. You mention the name of the company once but do not name the city of its location; viz., Springfield, Ill. You refer to it later as "Lincoln Life" and several times as "Lincoln." The Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., which I organized and of which I have always been the head, has been in business 29 years, and now is 18th in the entire U. S. for volume of insurance in force. . . . Strong...
...averages markedly significant until they are well above 7.5 per 25. The lumped results of five subjects comprising 13,750 trials show an average of 9. The improbability that these results could occur by chance, Dr. Rhine feels, is equal to the improbability suggested by Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, viz., if an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might accidentally write all the books in the British Museum...
...referring to your article "Jobs & Jews" on p. 12 of the May 21 issue. . . . This should certainly convince all people of our faith that-in spite of previous criticism--your articles are written in a fair unbiased manner. The concluding paragraph in the article, which is worthwhile repeating, viz: ''No hierarchy, indeed, are the Jews of the Administration, but they are by no means insignificant. Their power rests not upon their jobs but upon their great industry, their extraordinary mental ability and their crusading fervor for what they conceive to be the high and remote ideals...
This is a reductio ad absurdum not only for common sense but for the theory of Relativity. Timidly at first but more boldly of late, some astronomers have suggested other possible causes for the redshift, viz. cosmic dust scattered through space or a slowing of light's velocity after millions of years of travel. Once as fervid a believer in the expanding universe as Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. Hubble was ready last week to admit that it might be an illusion. "The cautious observer," said he wryly, "refrains from committing himself to the present interpretation and employs the colorless...