A single-shock Hugoniot consistent with the data has been determined for the high-pressure modification of some of these rocks.

Nor was anything done at San Pablo except the cutting of two cunettes necessary for working with heavy machinery, and the projection of a plane for a passage under the Panama Railway, by which the excavations made at K. 35.700 could be carried to the banks of the Chagres.

The propagandists, advertisers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, and academicians rank high in the Aeolistic hierarchy, and their distorted and empty pronouncements currently play an important role in determining and forming our system of values and beliefs.

From 1924 onwards my little collection of evidence contained a mixture of literary references. Exhibit A was Evelyn Waugh in Vile Bodies (published in 1930): […]