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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves moonwards in rockets. Herr Oberth, bearing in mind the desirability of returning and landing on the earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former as has been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane 13,120 ft. per sec., or about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mooning | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Record '32, captain of the Crimson First Year team is practically certain of a first in both the high and low hurdles, his times in this season's meet surpassing some turned in by University performers. E. N. Core '32 and J. W. Crickard '32, his two teammates should also figure in the scoring in these events. Another outstanding star is N. P. Hallowell '32 captain of the Freshman cross country team last fall, whose time for the 880 has excelled any performed in University meets this season. His 1.56 3-5 in the University handicap meet bordered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN TRACK TEAM PICKED TO DEFEAT BLUE | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

This point was the very core of the U. S. proposals presented in Geneva a fortnight ago by Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, personal friend and confidential representative of Mr. Hoover. At the earliest opportunity last week Comrade Litvinov rose and moved a resolution closely paraphrasing Mr. Gibson's speech. The delegates of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission were asked by the cheerful Russian to declare that they are engaged in promoting "drastic reduction of armaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Battling for Reduction | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps, in time, his student body will follow the faculty to the foot of the tree of knowledge and to the exit from the garden of Eden, and leave Dr. Shields the snake and an apple core...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...must know ourselves! We must confess that we are terribly poor and that our people are suffering miseries which justly horrify the civilized peoples. We must confess that our political life is corrupt to the core, and that most of our homes are nests of crime, of injustice, oppression, lynching and suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scum! | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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