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...chosen weapon, the microphone, and say a few words about Dr. Norris. The topic for one broadcast was to be NORRISISM AND ITS FRUITS, for another NORRISISM AND ITS MISREPRESENTATIONS. Texas radio batteries were charged and tested as Dr. Norris announced that he would send forth full replies via ether...
...Universe. Sir Oliver, onetime (1913-14) president of the Association, had much to say to his colleagues and to the public. He offered his entire private cosmogony, an explanation of the physical universe based upon the inference that there was, in the beginning, and still is, a universal medium, ether, very dense, continuous, all-permeating, boundless, and everywhere in violent motion. Since matter is now known to be pure energy in complicated forms, the origin of matter out of the ether might be accounted for thus: the continuity of the ether was at some time interrupted by "an extremely minute...
Comments. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, outstanding U. S. electro-mechanist, said: "Sir Oliver Lodge has his ether doing wonderful things. But I don't believe...
Cosmic Rays. The hall was packed to hear Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology report on another summer's investigation of the all-penetrating ether vibrations, or universal rays, detected a quarter-century ago but not measured until two years ago, by Dr. Millikan. New measurements, taken with instruments eight times as sensitive as before, in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead...
...Richard E. Byrd offered unsolicited praise to Jesse Lasky for the faithful realism with which the air maneuvers were pictured. The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes...