Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exhibitionism, rampant in many of the denizens of Southern California, sometimes seems to be part of the very air and soil. The warm earth that produces the biggest trees, the most abundant fruits in the U. S., can also shake as it did in 1933. The mild and sunny climate is, like a serenely lovely movie star, also capable of temperamental fits. Any disturbances are naturally more horrifying in what seems in times of calm to be a terrestrial paradise, but last week the capital of Southern California had a climactic climatic experience that would have been shocking even...
Evolved by burly, kindly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school in Rome (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), finger painting has rapidly become a custom in progressive schools. It is done with earth pigments, invented by Miss Shaw, which come like jelly in little jars and can be licked or even eaten with impunity. A big sheet of glazed paper is dipped in water, spread smooth on a table, and gobs of color are dropped on it. The child then swirls the mixture over the paper with both hands, fingers, even forearms, continually creating new designs. Having no crayon or brush...
...vacuum tube in California showed apparent fluctuations in the speed of light up to 12 mi. per sec. Physicists promptly raised a hue & cry, which was quieted when the fluctuations were ascribed to that old standby, "experimental error," or to "disturbing influences of unknown origin"-i.e., movements of the earth, the moon, the tides. More recently there has been talk of certain other "constants" which varied widely enough to be clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time too long to permit detection. By last week...
Expanding Universe? The question of constants is closely bound up with the magnificent conception of the Expanding Universe. Half way out to the fringes of the visible universe, the nebulae or star-galaxies appear to be rushing away from Earth at speeds up to 25,000 miles per second. The light from these nebulae is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum and ordinarily, such a shift indicates receding velocity. But the speeds are so big that many astronomers consider the Expanding Universe may be an illusion, have sought some other cause for the redshift in the spectrum...
Before 1919 the Barnum & Bailey Circus was THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and Ringling Brothers Circus was simultaneously THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOW. In 1919 this duplicate hugeness was joined under one top. The result, according to the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, was not only the biggest circus ever but one of the fanciest conspiracies "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." on record. Last week the circus income tax evasion case, touring one legal phase after another for over five years, pitched its tents in Manhattan as the Government began its prosecution...