Fathers-in-law

Whereas most chemists focused their attention on speculation about atoms and the question of atomic weights, the constant multiplicity in compounds occupied an increasingly central role. The new concept of substitution, i.e., the replacement of one element by another in a compound, started to make a major impact on chemistry in the 1840s. It was probably Dumas, who in the 1830s at the request of his father-in-law (who was the director of the famous Royal Sevres porcelain factory) resolved an event that upset a royal dinner party at the Tuil-... 

Midgley was born on May 18, 1889, into a family of successful inventors. His father held patents for automobile wheels, and his father-in-law patented inserted-tooth saws. According to a Midgley tradition, an English ancestor worked for James Watt, inventor of the steam engine. Young... 

DSS dedicates this book to his father and father-in-law, whose love of science and curiosity about the world are an inspiration. JAS dedicates this book to her husband, son, and daughter. 

Divination/precognition induced by Ayahuasa (Harner, 1973) Anthropologist, Kenneth Kensinger was informed at an ayahuasa party, by six out of nine Peruvian Cashinahua present, of the death of his father in law which he was later informed by radio had occurred two days before. 

Lavoisier was a tax collector before he became a famous scientist, and that was largely what sealed his fate. But his chemical expertise also secured him the prominent position of director on Louis XVFs Gunpowder Administration, and as treasurer and effective secretary of the Academy of Sciences he vigorously opposed its dissolution by the anti-elitist Jacobin administration in 1793. Lavoisier was a sitting target for the Revolutionary witch-hunters, who were determined to purge the nation of anyone whose loyalty to the Republic they found reason to doubt. That is why, in 1794, Lavoisier was forced to bow his head to the blade that had just removed his father-in-law s. 

Soddy introduced the term, but it was Dr. Margaret Todd who coined it. This was done at a dinner party in 1913 at the home of Soddy s father-in-law. Sir George Beilby. A plaque on the house marks the occasion. 

Fairly vivid dream. It started out with my being in my father-in-law s office.. . . He and I then left. 

Although he did not record it immediately, Mr. A is also certain that the elevator in his dream kept changing its shape and size as he and his father-in-law were riding on it in the dream. 

Even if she hadn t, an unhappy wife is more likely to find consolation with acavaliere servente than poison her father-in-law. I was no nearer to finding a motive for the old man s murder. 

My father taught me one of my first valuable lessons in statistics Spit in one hand and wish in the other. Now, tell me which is the fullest (An absolute gage is needed to judge absolute differences ) My father-in-law taught me the second If... 

Danese handed her ashore and watched her tumble into her mother s arms in an orgy of mutual hypocrisy. He followed and bowed warily to his father-in-law. 

No. No, I can t prove it. My days in the laboratory are over. I m about to join my husband in London. We walked on in silence. By mentioning Aislabie, I had brought my husband into the church, and now there he was, lolling against a pillar, sardonic, watchful. I withdrew my hand from Shales s arm. I was wondering why you left so suddenly on the day after the party. Aislabie mentioned that you had business with your father-in-law. ... 

We had reached the high, empty space under the tower where the colored bell ropes were looped overhead. Duty, Mrs. Aislabie. Your favorite word. My father-in-law had been pressing me to visit him for some time. He s a justice of the peace, and too many prisoners in his jail were dying before they d served their sentence. He thought that with my knowledge of airs, I might be able to show the authorities how best to ventilate the place. ... 

He laughed. My father-in-law can t abide me near him for long, either. We don t agree on much in fact, we are opposites. I did him this one favor because I thought I owed him. ... 

Except, maybe, for obnoxious fathers-in-law- which recommendation is politically correct inasmuch it restores the balance to the recipe previously given for mothers-in-law. 

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