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Ferreting out acts on erromagnetism

OCT 01, 1950
These remarks on scientific literature and the use of references to obscure the past—which the author is against—were taken from a paper presented before a meeting of the New England Section of the American Physical Society at Williamstown, Massachusetts on October 22, 1949 and repeated at the meeting of the Metropolitan Section of the same Society at Brookhaven National Laboratory on March 31, 1950.
L. W. McKeehan

Oliver Herford wrote a poem about the dinosaur in which the advantage of having two widely separated brains of low quality is emphasized approximately in these words:

“For he could think, without congestion, Upon both sides of any question.”

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L. W. McKeehan, Yale University.

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