Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horizon for many people who will see it. In this respect, Milton Krims's screen play, Anatole Litvak's direction and the acting of Flynn and Miss Davis are eminently successful. A trifle pretentious in its narrative manner, The Sisters has the salient virtue of making it clear that in 1908 that sleepy year seemed just as fateful as 1938 does now, and for somewhat similar reasons. Good shot: The Medlins' San Francisco neighbor squealing the earthquake war cry: "It's the end of the world...
...says, "is a feeling of helplessness before the unintelligible. Every problem is new to the mind which first meets it and it is baffling until he can recognize in it something which he has met and dealt with already. The all important difference between the mind which can clear itself by thought and the mind which remains bewildered and can proceed only by burying the difficulty in a formula-retained, at best, by mere rote memory-is in this power to recognize the new problem as, in part, an old conquest." Intelligence in its highest form, he adds, is ability...
...clear spectrum it is necessary to work with a very narrow band of light; but, because of atmospheric distortion, the image comes in as a diffuse, approximately circular blob. In practice the light is therefore fed through a narrow slit, perhaps one-thousandth of an inch wide. This screens off most of the diffuse image, but wastes 90 to 95% of the light, squanders countless hours of exposure time on big telescopes, prevents spectroscopic analysis of the farthest visible nebulae or "island universes...
...Physicist Rudolph Meyer Langer of Caltech declared that "the new method ranks with . . . the very greatest improvements in astronomical technique in several generations." In connection with Caltech's 200-inch telescope, which is expected to start action two or three years hence, the image-slicer may help clear up the mystery of the Expanding Universe. Dr. Hubble, who collected most of the evidence for expansion (high-velocity retreat of the distant nebulae), now believes that after traveling long distances something in the nature of light may cause merely an appearance of expansion, that the universe may well be actually...
...Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published in the U.S. as The Innocent Voyage}, a perversely humorous best-seller of 1929, contrives the tale of a British tramp steamer...