Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kapitsa's research was in an entirely different field: the behavior of materials at extremely low temperatures. In the early 1930s, while working at Britain's Cambridge University, the young Russian won international acclaim for creating for the first time a device for liquefying helium in large quantities. That was no small feat, because helium does not become liquid until its temperature has been reduced to about 4° above absolute zero. When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again-on the ground that...
...skyscrapers now house party and government offices. Gone from hi front of the old Hongkong & Shanghai Bank are the bronze Britannic lions. Another old bank has been transformed into an absorbing museum of ancient art. The Peace Hotel, built as the Cathay by Sir Victor Sassoon hi the mid-1930s and now the premier hostelry for Western visitors, is creaky and listless, but it can still mount a banquet worthy of an Emperor. At a school hi Shanghai's Yangpu district, 34 exquisite young voices rehearse a song that turns out to be pure Maozart: We Follow Our Chairman...
...basic idea for multi-eyed monsters is not new. Even while they were building Palomar in the 1930s, astronomers realized that if they wanted still larger instruments they would need less expensive technologies. Yet many doubted that it would ever be possible to get several smaller mirrors to scan the heavens precisely in unison. Explains MMT's acting director, Neville Woolf: "The problem is comparable to getting six headstrong prima ballerinas to dance as if they were...
Decatur has a past. The celebrated Scottsboro boys case of the 1930s-in which eight of nine black youths were sentenced to death on highly dubious charges of raping two white women-was retried there and led to four new convictions. Decatur peacefully integrated its schools and public facilities in the 1960s, but as soon as Hines was indicted in June, racial tension began rising. Demonstrators from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appeared in front of the city hall and put up tents on the grass. Hines' arrest was "a setup," said the Rev. R.B. Cotton-reader, a leader...
DIED. Franklin Alton Wade, 75, geologist on Admiral Richard Byrd's two historic Antarctic expeditions in the 1930s; in Lubbock, Texas. Wade narrowly escaped falling into a crevasse and endured serious frostbite while charting the geological history of Antarctica. Describing the latter calamity, Byrd wrote, "Wade was certainly a shocking sight ... his face grossly swollen, the right eye tightly puffed under puffy lids. He looked exactly as if he had stuck his head in a hornet's nest ... No one had seen a worse case of frosting...