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Paul Wittgenstein, famed one-armed Austrian pianist, had made his U. S. debut with the Boston Symphony, playing a Concerto especially composed for him by Maurice Ravel. Bostonians closed their eyes because it seemed incredible that a single left hand could compass a keyboard so quickly and completely, make the treble sound clear and strong while the bass poured out a seething undercurrent. Compared with most pianists, Paul Wittgenstein has a fairly small hand. His trick was to train it to lightning speed, to develop his pedal technique so that he could cover transitions gracefully and subtly, give a solid...
...equally certain they were electrically charged corpuscles. Dr. Compton's stand was strengthened by the piling up of evidence that cosmic ray intensity is less near the Equator than in high latitudes. That seemed to show that the rays were charged particles attracted to the Poles as a compass needle is. Then it was found that more cosmic rays come from the west than from the east. That datum, considered with reference to Earth's magnetic field, made it appear that most of the rays were positively charged protons or positrons...
Even trained observers had difficulty in determining their distance from the particle, but that distance can be readily ascertained by plotting on a map the compass directions, corrected for true north, observatory officials point out. The intersections of the majority of of these lines indicate the approximate positions of the starting and vanishing points...
...from the reports of obviously competent and trained observers,--surveyors, trained seamen, coastguardsmen, and the like. Their letters, coming from scattered positions along the coast, notable from Isle au Haute, Me.; Boston Harbor, Nantucket, Nantasket, and Jonesboro, Me.; and towns along the North Shore of Massachusetts supply accurate magnetic compass directions and angles of elevations of the starting and vanishing points of the flight, and a comparison of the size of the body with that of the sun at the time...
...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...