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...into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb the peace of the "Paradise of the Pacific," Oahu fell into hostile hands, and with it the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Imaginative newsmen reported that the Black attack by air had left Honolulu "a shambles." If it had been real war, the Navy would have lost the famed tanks which Oilman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Fleet Problem No. 14 | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

Three weeks after the struggle began Mayor I. O. Langum had to issue a municipal order that no one might disturb the combatants. Wiggling desperately, the snake tore the web again & again, but each torn strand clung to it and held it more tightly. Spinning with cold-blooded persistence, the spider lifted the snake higher & higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Battle in a Pumphouse | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...will broadcast special radio signals from Arlington and Annapolis. WGY, Schenectady and WCSH, Portland, Me. will rebroadcast. Canadian National Railways Station CNRO, Ottawa will also broadcast. The day will probably be poor for radio reception because some sunspots are due to blow open Aug. 28 and 29. Sunspots always disturb radio communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipse Day | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Ellendale to fly around with Station Director Thomas Lawlor this week. They are to take aloft a self-recording electroscope whose invention Dr. Millikan announced from Pasadena last week. It is ten times as sensitive to cosmic rays as any other electroscope he knows of. Vibration does not disturb it. Hence unlearned Army fliers are to take up replicas to heights of from 20,000 to 25,000 ft. Co-inventors of the new Millikan electroscope were Professors Ira Sprague Bowen. and Henry Victor Neher who works under Dr. Millikan at Caltech. The highest Dr. Millikan has sent an electroscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ray Circus | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Jews, especially during the years immediately following the War. Famed for negotiating with Dr. Julius Curtius, then German Foreign Minister, the Austro-German customs union (Zoll- verein), which ultimately was declared illegal by the World Court, Dr. Schober was known as the statesman who in 1931 "helped disturb the peace of Europe." His death followed by some three weeks that of his equally famed political rival, Mgr. Ignaz Seipel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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