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...athwart the sea hath passed...
...times the weight of air at sea level. Cosmic rays ionize the imprisoned nitrogen. If the telescope is pointed at a source of the rays the gas in one sphere should be ionized less than the gas in the other. If the cylinder is swung athwart the ray, ionization should be equal in both spheres. Dr. Swann plans to swing his "telescope" to and fro until he can judge whether atoms are dying in the stars (Jeans) or are aborning between the stars (Millikan...
Paris for the first time began to feel that they might have overstepped the mark, suddenly saw the red shadow of Russia athwart the German map. Was there the wildest possibility that Germany might borrow from Russia? If German Communists seized the Reich would they ally themselves with Moscow? Might the Red Army soon be on the Rhine? Le Figaro recalled the German-Russian Treaty of Rapallo, and added: "A new consecration, and no doubt a strengthened one has occurred between Russia and Germany at the moment when with tears in its voice the Reich is imploring...
...managers and sales managers of Bethlehem Steel Corp. gathered for their annual conference. At the big dinner Chairman Charles Michael Schwab and President Eugene Gifford Grace spoke. Not discussed officially, but the subject of many a private argument, was a $36,000,000 suit the shadow of which lay athwart the Messrs. Schwab & Grace...
...experiences in that war . . . it seemed funny to us." he said. "But now (hat I am last I see no humor in it." He filled his glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart the sky; No tap of drums, no bugle call; My comrades, all, Goodbye! He sipped the wine, set down his glass. The Burgundy had turned sour. Mused Last Man Lockwood: "We should have saved ourselves a bottle of old Irish whiskey instead. It would have been nice and oily...