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...received the British note promising a conference, Europe was astonished by a report that Turkey had already sent soldiers into the demilitarized zones. The British Foreign Office cautiously registered "disbelief." British newspapers were unexcited. The false rumor had been as effective as if it had been an official trial balloon. Thoroughly satisfied, Kamâl Atatürk at week's end categorically denied that soldiers have marched into the demilitarized zones...
...weekly concerts by the Symphony in Boston on Friday and Saturday give every evidence of being superb and among the most distinguished in the series. The First Symphony of Beethoven opens the program. Composed in 1800 when Beethoven was thirty years old, it acted more as a trial balloon for the great symphonies which followed it than as an original contribution to the literature. The style and the methods employed are very reminiscent of Haydn and Mozart, but even in this early work, a certain individuality is already present which was for a time to make Beethoven the black sheep...
...fall is protected by an automatic parachute. Dr. Goddard, who hates to stir up gaudy talk of moon flights, announces his present objective as reaching 50 miles into the stratosphere "to obtain meteorological, astronomical, magnetic and other data of altitudes greatly exceeding those which can be reached by balloon...
...overwhelming destiny. The last third of the picture is a chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats...
...ionized. Later experimenters discovered that thick screens of lead or water shut out some of the mysterious ionizing agent, but not all. Lord Rutherford thought it might be something in the atmosphere near the ground. Göckel of Switzerland, Hess of Vienna and Kolhorster of Potsdam made balloon flights up to five miles, found the radiation seven times stronger than at the earth's surface. Thus the rays were seen to be coming in from the cosmos beyond Earth's blanket of air. Calculation revealed them as more penetrating than the gamma rays which emerge from radium...