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...ballistician, TIME'S Science writer erred pardonably in assigning "drift of waves" as one of the factors affecting the trajectory of a projectile fired at long range from a battleship...
...defeated Labor candidate, Mrs. Barbara Gould, rolled up 12,799 last week, whereas at Norwood in 1931 Labor polled 7,217 and the regular Conservative 30,851. Norwood voters were so apathetic last week that few more than half of them went to the polls, but the drift to Labor, now seen all over Britain, remained ominously clear...
Harvard's third varsity crew, closely followed by a coaching launch, was rowing on the Charles River near Cambridge when an engine explosion fired the launch. Under coach's orders. Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., No. 2, and crewmates sat helplessly by, watched the burning launch drift ashore...
Warm winds whispered through the pale night, and moonbeams shimmered mockingly over the ancient stones of the nunnery. Inside slept Chastity like a drift of snow in a cave in summer. Behind the grilled window of a tower chamber in candle burned. A young friar saw it and smiled as he walked up and down in the walled-in garden of the nunnery. The wan night air, fragrant with the scent of flowers, caressed him. Old repressions and half-forgotten dusty dont's quickened his pleasure in the escapade. If one could only catch this fragile essence and then only...
...long-range gunfire nine or ten factors might be taken into consideration for computing the most accurate possible trajectory: speed of battleship, speed of enemy ship, drift of waves, wind velocity, shape of shell, muzzle velocity of shell, atmospheric humidity, even the rotation of the earth. Naval engineers might wrestle with their ballistics equations for months to correlate these factors. The machine can do in five minutes what it takes five naval engineers four months to do on paper...