Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temperature which can be sustained and measured, the positive pole of a carbon arc is the hottest place on Earth. Three Cleveland electrochemists who spend their time studying carbon have established this record temperature at close...
Just before Charles Francis Brush, Cleveland inventor of arc lights and storage batteries, died in 1929, he gave $500,000 for a Brush Foundation to improve the human race and regulate its population. Dr. Todd, a tall, angular Yorkshireman whose fondest possession is an original photograph of Charles Darwin, took charge of the Brush Foundation. His first goal, and the purpose of his meticulous measurements of Cleveland children, is to find exactly how a human being grows from childhood to adulthood. When he learns what happens to the body (including brain), he expects to find out precisely how the mind...
Encouraged by the success of Jack Dempsey's Manhattan restaurant (TIME, Dec. 24), Georges Carpentier, onetime light heavyweight champion of the world, opened a bar near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
...arc doubtless aware, much was made in the papers of the elaborate preparations for the protection of President Roosevelt during his recent visit to the Fly Club at Harvard [TIME, March 4 ]. It would seem that my experience on that evening would tend to disillusion those who would take this protection too literally. On the evening of the President's visit, I, in a slightly intoxicated, though by no means drunken, condition, waited with the small group outside of the Club to see the President leave. As he drove along Mt. Auburn .Street I slipped by two or three...
...Experience has shown that without dunking a doughnut is dry eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful it may signify the beginning of an athletic renaissance. In any event, if doughnuts for breakfast have been substituted for hockey rinks we should not look the gift horse in the face. Appreciation...