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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Darwin noticed that people cutting with a pair of scissors often moved their jaws sympathetically. This seems the rational explanation for typists chewing gum. *London's tides fluctuate 16 to 20 ft. t Discoverer of the cosmic ray was Dr. Werner Kolhoerster, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Eternal cycle. Among those whose minds were groping for the heart of being rather than its stomach was Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize winner, student of the cosmic ray (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925),† physicist of the California Institute of Technology. For years he has been in the vanguard of those attacking the foundations of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Manhattan | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

This reintegration evinced itself in the cosmic rays, which he described as the "birth-cries" of the atoms, radiations pouring in upon the earth from infinite space by night as well as by day, a fact excluding solar explanations, emanation capable of penetrating eighteen feet of lead, a far greater depth than any other known rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Manhattan | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Trans-Atlantic airways, the degradation of the press, State Legislatures, the Negro, the farmer, formed part of the cosmic program, the vocalists including, besides great historians and divers experts, an Italian count who long ago had a good position in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Charlottesville | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...been less patriotic, more cosmic, he might have chosen Sun, World, Globe, Star, Comet, Meteor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bee-News | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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