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Another report was that two radio engineers named Rodman and Dumont had helped Captain Clayton develop the ship-finder, using a thermocouple. Thermocouples operate on the physical principle that, if two small strips of dissimilar metals are made to form a closed circuit, minute changes in the temperature of the strips set up minute electrical currents, which may be amplified by vacuum tubes and measured. Astronomers use thermocouples to measure the temperatures of stars trillions of miles away...
...Trumpler announced that he had solved the difficulty by measuring the redshift of nine "O" stars (hottest, brightest, heaviest in the sky) moving along in clusters with other stars. The redshift of these nine showed a marked excess over that of their companions which could not be due to dissimilar motion, must therefore be due to the restraining effect of their powerful gravitational fields on their radiated light...
...difference in setting between the greatest English steeplechase and its only rival in the U. S. symbolizes other distinctions which make the races, except for their importance to steeplechase enthusiasts, as dissimilar as possible. The Grand National, over dreary flats near Liverpool, is run for a purse of approximately ?5,000. It settles a huge sweepstake and costs most of the 300,000 who watch it a shilling for the privilege. The Maryland Hunt Cup race, started in 1894 when two rival fox hunts decided to see which had the best horses, is for a silver cup which Captain Kettle...
...Right to Live (Warner). When a new actress arrives at a studio, the customary procedure is to put her in a succession of roles as dissimilar as possible, in order to find out in which category she fits best. Having "discovered" pretty Josephine Hutchinson in Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, where she had been functioning for eight years, Warner's first experiment was a musical comedy (Happiness Ahead), in which her by no means untaxing assignment was to spend six reels listening to Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem...
...impediment, won a 1932 Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Scholars must be, apart from brilliant scholarship and civilized deportment, fluent talkers. At the University of Iowa Professor Lee Edward Travis announced as a discovery "that nerve impulses which dominate the two sides of the speech mechanism are strikingly dissimilar when a person stutters...