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Word: cores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eternal Mask" is a study of insanity, and although it would seem to an ignorant spectator that the psychology might be questioned, the drama of the thing is tremendously absorbing. The core of the film is a series of imaginary scenes depicting the wanderings of a man within his own mind. A young doctor is refused permission by his superior to try out a serum he has developed on a hopeless meningitis patient, although the young man is convinced that it is infallibly salutary. So he goes ahead and tries it anyway, and the man dies. Death was the result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...exist." Anderson had also declared himself for this particle; Gamow of Russia thought it might help to explain artificial radioactivity. Max Born, distinguished German exile now in England, guessed that in some distant regions of the universe the rule of the atom might be reversed-negative protons at the core and positive electricity outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Symmetry | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...quartz tube less than a quarter-inch in outside diameter, with an inside diameter of .08 to .04 in. It contains neon to start an electric arc, is so full of mercury that when the arc vaporizes the mercury, the pressure rises as high as 300 atmospheres. At the core of the mercury the temperature is 14,000° F., on the inside wall of the tube 1,800°. The lamp is served by a water cooler in which the water must be hurried along in its jacket to prevent the formation of steam bubbles. The heat given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cool Stars | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Through the current hearings on the Glenn Frank case the nation can scize its opportunity to grasp the issues involved. Clarification of these issues has been overdue since the first whispers of the controversy burst into a roar heard far beyond the borders of Wisconsin. The core of the conflict is simple. The Regents must decide whether the undeniable progress made by the University under Frank's direction outweighs the President's alleged mismanagement of intra-University disputes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THUNDER ROLLS ON | 1/8/1937 | See Source »

...matter within the Milky Way, which is the home galaxy of earthlings. They may be distinguished by calling the local patches galactic nebulae, the great outer star clusters extragalactic nebulae. About 100 of the nebulae within the Milky Way are planetary: that is, they have a star at the core and are presumed to shine by light reflected from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond Earth | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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