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...timepieces. After a 288-day comparison with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (Astronomer Dyson's special charge) it was found that Big Ben's maximum deviation was only 1.4 sec. per day, that only on 21 days in the whole period of observation did the deviation exceed 1.o sec. No intricate mechanical adjustments but a mere pocketful of small change maintains the accuracy of Big Ben.* "Whenever the clock is losing slightly," explained Astronomer Royal Dyson, "we just drop a ha'penny or a penny on a tray fixed about half way down the pendulum...
...grammar; which on his recent Oriental tour led him to travel for weeks under the most primitive conditions to listen to native music unadorned; which enables him so to concentrate on his music that in his concerts he never needs a score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind. For, although Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner have stayed his first loves, he has had time and bursts of enthusiasm for Stravinsky, Schönberg. Sibelius, Skriabin. He has been willing to experiment with...
...rhetoric have obscured the fact that the fundamental issue revolves on the extermination of a class. The emphasis on material possessions as the criterion of equality or inequality has led Soviet Russia to decree the destruction of the Kulaks, or rich peasants. This class, according to instructions, must not exceed three per cent of the entire Soviet Union or, more accurately, four million peasants. With hunger and exile awaiting those who are subject to this decree, it is a vital question to determine exactly what are the specifications for "Kulakdom" as distinguished from the "middle" peasantry...
Secretary Davis's "guess" of 3,000,000 jobless did not jibe well with White House optimism. Therefore, in a joint statement with Secretary Lament, Mr. Davis revised his figures and "guessed" again that current unemployment did not exceed that of last year at this time by more than...
...planet is probably larger than the Earth and smaller than Neptune, and can be seen only with the most powerful telescopes now in existence. It has been estimated that the sun's light at this farthest planet can hardly exceed that of moonlight, and under such a low temperature the nitrogen that might be in the air would be solid and the oxygen, if not solid, at least a dense liquid...