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...British broadcasting isn't in it with you Americans. Here you've made a great study of radio. In England it's very amateur. Our apparatus, compared to yours, is quaint, and we have almost no good producers or writers. There are all sorts of reasons...
Budenz declares that although the International may be theoretically nonexistent, it is in fact very much alive. The Communist Party of the United States, furthermore, includes a conspiratorial apparatus which beyond doubt serves hand in hand with the Soviet espionage system...
...From this small beginning, big tough it appeared at the time, the Observatory has grown to one of the largest research institutions in the world," says Charles A. Federer, Jr., Editor of the Observatory's monthly magazine, Sky and Telescope. The old refractor and meridan circle apparatus have been replaced long ago by more than 30 separate instruments, varied in design and highly specialized in function...
Physics. To non-nuclear Professor Percy Williams Bridgman of Harvard, 64, authority on high-pressure phenomena. He proved that nearly all substances change profoundly if squeezed hard enough. Water existed as ice in Bridgman's apparatus, even when its temperature was above the normal boiling point. Soft and slippery graphite (under 1,500,000 pounds of pressure per square inch) gets hard enough to make a dent in steel...
Bridgman was given the award as the result of his life-long studies "within the sphere of high pressure physics," and for his invention of an apparatus producing extremely high pressures...