Weight Tossing

If young Dr. Kenneth T. Bainbridge stood in the gallery of a theatre and threw handfuls of lemons, oranges and grapefruit at the stage, he would no doubt be ejected by the police. But if there existed no scales on which to weigh lemons, oranges and grapefruit, the police would doubtless let him throw to his heart's content. Thrown with equal force, the lemons would hit players, the oranges would land in the orchestra pit, the grapefruit on the heads of $5.50 seat-holders. Then Dr. Bainbridge could...

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