Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millikan believes that the Universe is constantly regenerating itself. His chief evidence is the cosmic ray, most penetrating known. The energy which this ray carries, he figures, is just the amount which would be released when four atoms of hydrogen, the primeval element, combined to form one helium atom...
...Admirable Crichton was revived last week with capable Walter Hampden as the cosmic butler, childlike and charming Fay Bainter as Lady Mary Lasenby. The opening was fresh and amusing with a message from Playwright Sir James Barrie read by William Gillette (first Crichton in the U. S.). But modern spectators, accustomed to tight playwrighting, could not help feeling that Acts II and IV are, while pleasant, structurally useless...
...cosmic threat: "Preserved from every illness otherwise, every accident, and assuming all organs none the worse for the wear of years, it is the cosmic rays in our light that will bring us to our death...
Little is known of cosmic rays. But of other rays a progressive series of effects on living matter may be observed. Heat, for example-and Dr. Heyroth pursued his thesis* with mounting excitement- sears the flesh immediately. X-rays cause a burn which becomes evident three weeks to six months after. Gamma-ray burns do not show for years. "So the cosmic rays, we believe, must take infinitely longer still. Of what investigation we have made of these rays, we venture what seems to be a wholly new theory as to why- exempting not even the strongest and most sheltered...
...COSMIC RELIGION-Albert Einstein- Covici, Friede...