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...will not kill or blind but will render industrial alcohol exceedingly nauseous to the taste. Director Doran said that alcotate's aroma is not unlike "spoiled eggs and garlic." One newshawk took a sip of it, made faces, said he thought it tasted like a compound of ether and benzine. Remarked Chemist Doran: "It's not as bad as some of the stuff you've been drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spoiled Eggs & Garlic | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

That Harvard students appreciate good reading is shown by the way in which they flock to Copey's readings. It is the Herald which fails to show due appreciation and understanding. It seems to feel that his reading can be conveyed unimpaired through the ether and that the people listening in at home can be thrilled to the same extent as those at the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPEY ON THE AIR | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...reckons the speed. This performance is different from the classic Michelson-Morley experiment on which Dr. Einstein based his theory of Relativity. The Michelson-Morley work, performed in 1887 in a basement room at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, was carried on to test the presence of an "ether-drift," required two beams of light traveling perpendicular to one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Physical Trio | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...battering the nucleus of any atom in their path, perhaps of changing it into atomic energy which scientists have long talked about. Cosmic Rays. Although some scientists have thought that the "cosmic rays" which bombard the earth might be high-speed electrons, recent investigations have indicated that they are ether waves of very high frequencies, reported Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of the executive committee of California Institute of Technology, one of the most famed of the great West Coast scientists. If they were electrons, the rays' reception on earth would be influenced by the magnetic polar regions. To test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Until alleged Eye-witness Aaron Kopman spoke last week, such charges anent Soviet "lumber hells" had been chiefly heard as "rumors," carried in notoriously sensational "despatches from Riga," hurled into the ether from such professionally anti-Red radio stations as Manhattan's WHAP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bloodthirsty Beasts | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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