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...world's most famed cosmic ray experts, startled a gathering of some 100 distinguished physicists by retracting a theory which he had espoused two and a half years ago, and by putting forth a new one in its place. Cosmic rays are electrified particles which constantly bombard Earth from every direction. It is estimated that about 30 shoot through every human body every second. They have energies higher than any particles ever propelled by man-made machines- energies, in some cases, measured in hundreds of billions of electron-volts...
What epidemiologists expected ever since the Japanese began to bombard China's big cities-disrupting sanitary systems, interrupting food supplies and turning the cities into armed camps filled with large concentrations of men-by last week was in full swing. Plagues were everywhere rampant, particularly cholera. This cause of black vomit & death was dropping 100 a day in Shanghai's International Settlement alone...
With this implicit backing, Generalissimo Franco sent off diplomatic notes to the Great Powers, announced that he may at any time bombard Barcelona to check the entry of Soviet arms and munitions at that port. In the House of Commons, amid chanting of "Shame! Shame! Shame!" by Laborites, the Conservative and Liberal majority roared "Hear! Hear!" as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reacted to the Franco note thus...
...clearly that the cosmic rays were cosmic-that is, that they did not come from the earth or the atmosphere. Enthusiastic Austrians once called this mysterious radiation "Hess Rays," just as an enthusiastic U. S. scientist later called them "Millikan Rays." Cosmic rays, as almost everyone now knows, bombard Earth continuously from every direction in the sky. No one knew this when the 20th Century opened. About that time it was observed that some sort of radiation from somewhere was constantly ionizing the air in electroscopes. Some theorists thought the source was radioactive material in the ground. If this were...
Heartened by these signs of the times were the elusive members of the profession whose business is institutional money-raising. One of its deans, baldish, square-shouldered George Olver Tamblyn of the Manhattan firm of Tamblyn & Tamblyn, began to bombard the desks of U. S. school executives with a brochure called Now Is the Time. Thesis of Now Is the Time is that schools are not sharing sufficiently in the national recovery, that the time is ripe once more for Alma Mater to put out her hand...