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...technique of approach is a complicated cycle of cooling, compression, magnetization, demagnetization. Liquid air cools compressed hydrogen until it liquefies, the liquid hydrogen cools com- pressed helium until it too liquefies. The last stage depends on the fact that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. The substance is powerfully magnetized and the heat generated drawn off; then a step farther down the scale of cold is obtained by demagnetization, and the cycle is repeated. The temperature is read by a system, of delicate balances, using the principle (discovered in the Curie laboratories of Paris) that the magnetic force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Approach to Absolute | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Then in Leyden, Professor W. J. de Haas turned to another magnetic com- pound, containing potassium, chromium, alum. Last week he revealed that he had taken a huge bite from the tiny distance remaining. His compound was .0002° C. above Absolute Zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Approach to Absolute | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Long study at the scene of the com- poser's activities and deep research into local and personal records have resulted in an account as detailed as a novel and written in much the same manner. Kaufman was fortunate in the choice of a subject for this style of writing since his principal character fits exactly into the mould which would be chosen by a romatic author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 1/11/1935 | See Source »

...exploded, tossing engineer and fireman 100 yards into a creek, catapulting the engine cab through the roof of a house. The entire boiler sailed up into the air and crashed down through the roof of the first coach. When the steam cleared, dead & dying lay sprawled in all directions. Com-pany officials said the boiler had seemed satisfactory when inspected last summer. Elkhorn-Piney Coal's score: dead, 16; injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wrecks | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

From Harvard went the weighty disapproval of famed Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, foe of third-degree methods. Wrote he: "An outburst of lawlessness! . . . Evidently New York's Police Com missioner deems himself above the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Muss 'Em Up | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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