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In the centre of the domed room Banker Hayden beheld a great dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projection instrument like a Martian death-ray machine straight out of an early Wells novel. A packed audience of moppets and grownups murmured as 2,700 stars winked in their proper places on the dim...
The neutron, since Cambridge's Dr. James Chadwick discovered it last year (TIME, March 7, 1932), has been considered an electrically inert combination of proton and electron. Two pictures of the combination have developed: 1) the heavy proton and the light electron bound together much like a dumbbell; 2...
Month ago nimble-witted Finance Minister T. V. Soong announced that for the first time since China became a Republic her dumbbell finances were whirling in a balanced rhythm (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week popular demands that China spend millions to fight Japan were enough to drive Juggler Soong frantic...
In another possible arrangement, the electrically positive proton might join with the negative electron. Generally, physicists believe, the two cancel each other. Their energy disappears. But last week Dr. Chadwick thought, "not always." The proton and electron in such case may join together like the knobs of a dumbbell.
Since the election was held Vice-President-Elect Francesco Beiro has died and been replaced by Dr. Enrique Martinez. He and Dr. Irigoyen solemnly took their oaths of office last week in the Congressional Building, received a Congressional cheer, and then set off down the shaft of the dumbbell, flanked...