Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carnegie Institution, may come from the sun. There are plenty of high-speed particles in the sun, but ordinarily they cannot escape into space because of the sun's powerful magnetic field. But sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened to point toward the earth...
...years since, he has retraced their footsteps everywhere in the New World except in Puerto Rico; last week the press of duties forced him to cancel a tramp-steamship trip on which he planned to go there...
Despite his weak heart (which caused him to cancel his announced U.S. trip this spring), Gide is still a prodigious worker. He is up at 6:30 every day, writes steadily until 9, works with a secretary until noon. After lunch and a nap he writes again until 5, has tea and receives friends. He hates to lose at solitaire or chess, loves the movies. A voracious reader, he rates Dashiell Hammett with Faulkner and Steinbeck, was greatly impressed by the Kinsey Report...
...register tomorrow and Friday find that their number is not sufficient," Adams continued, "and if residence in their own rooms is the deciding factor, they may cancel their registration without pain or penalty...
Thus in London's Sunday Express last week, Columnist Nat Gubbins good-naturedly warned U.S. tourists in Britain. But U.S. trippers did not scare easily. Two months ago political worries had led some to cancel trips to Europe, but the defeat of Italy's Communists had queued them up in longer lines than ever. Last week, for the first time since last fall, the Queen Elizabeth left New York City packed to the rails. This summer some 100,000 U.S. tourists will visit the United Kingdom and Eire; twice as many hope to go to the Continent...