Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millikan has carted his balloons through the snowy ranges of the Andes and Rockies, has plunged his flat, metal electroscopes 280 feet into snow-fed California lakes, to measure minute amounts of electricity which may penetrate their surfaces. Purpose of his travels: to learn something about the mysterious cosmic rays which seem to speed from interstellar space, and constantly bombard the earth...
Since he wishes to compute the different amounts of cosmic ray energy at a great variety of latitudes in both hemispheres of the earth, Dr. Millikan chose India, Australia and Tasmania for his latest researches...
...most perfect rejoinders to all that sort of thing was that made by St. Hilary of Poitiers, many centuries ago, when he spoke of a contemporary Buchmanite, so to speak, as having "an irreligious solicitude for God." St. Hilary went on to explain that an observer of the cosmic processes soon learns that the Almighty has His own spacious way of doing things, and that often He plans to take many thousands of years to accomplish some far-reaching purposes. . . . Cannot one venture to conclude, accordingly, that even Herr Buchman and his projected 100,000,000 adherents are not likely...
...discovery of further and greater cosmic motions may be made when bigger telescopes (such as Caltech's 200-inch) are completed. At present the visible universe is a galaxy-studded space a billion light-years in diameter. Some day it may be found that this whole aggregation with its hidden fringes is moving as an organized system relative to other aggregations of comparable size, not yet seen...
...famous Log Cabin Close-up and a couple of long distance shots of Miss Lamarr loping around the countryside without a stitch to her name, the picture makes no monumental play for the baser passions. In fact, the sex in "Ecstasy" makes a noble effort to be etherial, cosmic, and all very symbolic. Perhaps this was the director's secret, haunting ideal. If so, he came far from realizing it on celluloid, What he did realize was neither fish nor fowl; neither good, healthy cinepornography, nor a great, emotional masterpiece that would poeticize the Biological Urge. There were the makings...