[Leon] Trotsky's vanity, unlike [Joseph] Stalin's, was, practically speaking, frivolous. There was something more histrionic about it. He had shown himself no less ruthless than Stalin. Indeed, at the time of the Civil War, he had ordered executions on a greater scale than Stalin or anyone else.

It is possible to know something of theoretical chemistry, and to even do some successful and correct laboratory work in chemistry by strictly obeying the directions laid down in reliable books, without possessing a thorough mastery of the construction and use of chemical equations and of stœchiometry ; but the chemical work done by operators who can not of their own knowledge and skill write and balance chemical equations and make correct stœchiometric calculations must always be untrustworthy.

They are used in jarping competitions, in which each child holds an egg pointy end up and tries to crack their opponent's egg with one jarp, without breaking their own.

He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo, / By the bad voice.