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...made an airplane flight within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole. When all the data was in his hands, he found overwhelming evidence for variation by latitude, ranging up to 20%, concluded that most of the rays were electric corpuscles affected by the varying magnetic pulls of Earth. Dr. Millikan clung to his photons, alleging that the corpuscles were secondary rays knocked out of air atoms by the primary photons...
...actually been observed, so Dr. Compton agrees they must come from the remotest depths of space. What is their scientific importance? 1) A cosmic ray impact led to the discovery of the positive electron, a fundamental particle of matter. 2) The geographic distribution of the rays facilitates study of Earth's magnetic field. 3) For laboratory work cosmic rays provide atomic bullets thousands of times more powerful than any produced by man. 4) Their behavior at high voltages has already indicated a deficiency of electrodynamic theory which must be rectified. 5) Since about 30 pass through the human body...
...carry evolution back not only to primordial organisms, but to their natural production from wholly inanimate substances. It has been learned that all that is necessary for the spontaneous generation of certain sugars is sunlight, colored surfaces, water, carbon dioxide, moderate temperatures. Such factors were undoubtedly present on earth a billion years ago. The gap between such naturally generated substances and the half-alive tobacco mosaic virus may be almost no gap at all. Other highlights of the St. Louis meeting...
...ever since he graduated from Harvard (Class of 1909) except for War-time service in the Air Corps. Close to the best news sources in a city that makes considerable financial news, Editor Smith often in demand as a speaker and lecturer. Probably read in more corners of the earth than any other U. S. financial editor is the Christian Science Monitor s learned Herbert Berridge Elliston, whose column "The World's Business," appears three times per week. British-born, he was the Manchester Guardian s Far Eastern correspondent for several years, late: served as an economic adviser...
Five years ago Pearl Sydenstricker Buck convinced U. S. readers that there was good earth in China, and that its tillers were sympathetic human beings not unlike themselves. Her masterly translation of another classic truth {All Men Are Brothers; TIME, Oct. 16, 1933) fell on somewhat deafer ears. Last week she attempted an even more difficult reconciliation: exile and patriotism, missions and motherhood. Author Buck wrote this book about a missionary's wife as if it were a novel, but readers soon guessed she was telling the thinly disguised story of her mother's life. Few readers...