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Professor Wilson calculated, the cur rent of electricity amounted to 20 coulombs, that is, 20 amperes per second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Prizes | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...methods whereby an iceberg is slowly disintegrated and destroyed by nature are varied. The pounding of the heavy seas, rain, and the warm Gulf Stream which meets the Labrador cur- rent on the Banks, all contribute to the gradual erosion of the huge ice mountains. Warm heavy fogs rising from the mixture of warm and cold water are a big factor in the slow decay of the bergs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Law Student Tells of Experiences With Icebergs | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...used to be a pleasure to put TIME into the hands of the children in my cur rent "censor" events and cut class ; out but an now item I every have now to and then, and I am not at all sure that I want to continue taking the trouble of doing course, this. One cancellation. alternative would be, of I think that a simpler and much better solution would be, however, for you to of adopt this anything rule : which, "TIME while will it print may no be 'right' details or 'moral' in some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Wailing, he caused the howling cur to be led before him. A stern judge, he sentenced the ear-eating canine to fast for two days. Weeping, he cried: "Oh, sinful dog, how do I know that mine own father may not have transmigrated into thee? Lest I punish him in thee for this sin, I will fast with thee these two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Kutta Nagar | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Pint | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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