Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution (TIME, May 5) made a solar cooker at Mt. Vernon, Calif., which so concentrated the rays of the sun that the temperature of the oven was 175° Centigrade. Sad to say, the oil circulating system sprang a leak, soaked the insulation with oil, and the heat set fire to and destroyed the machine...
...Jennings, former train robber, ex-evangelist, onetime politician and lately realtor of Venice, Calif., testified that he had had conversations with the late Jake Hamon, Republican National Committeeman from Oklahoma, in which Hamon had said: 1) that he bought the nomination of Harding in 1920 for $1,000,000; 2) that the late Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania had received $250,000; 3) that Will Hays, Harry Daugherty and another man had each had $25,000; 4) that the New York delegation had been "very expensive"; 5) that Hamon had expected to become Secretary of the Interior and that...
...camera that works eight times faster than the swiftest known camera of today, and can take pictures by starlight alone, is the invention of Professor James Worthington, an astronomer of Carmel, Calif. He is interested chiefly in astronomical photography, but his achievements may revolutionize commercial and motion picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography...
Wanamaker is in France playing in the Cannes Tournament. Hitchcock has been playing at Camden, S. C, and Boeseke at Coronado, Calif...
...reference. He received degrees from the University of Illinois and taught mathematics in Iowa colleges. For the last ten years he has lived in Chicago, carrying on private researches in physics. Page is sponsored by Capt. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, of the U. S. Naval Observatory, Mare Island, Calif., Einstein's arch-antagonist (TIME, April...