Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time most cosmic ray workers were speaking in terms of particles, and photons were dropping rapidly out of the picture. Among the mass of evidence for particles, one key point is that the fact that they respond-as electrically inert photons could not-to Earth's magnetic field, showing variations by latitude...
Since then Dr. Compton, who has seven observation stations in his far-flung cosmic ray empire, has checked up on the variation. Another cosmic ray bigwig, Professor Manuel Sandoval Vallarta of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calculated what it should be theoretically, after discounting the effect of the magnetic field of the sun. On making this correction, the observed variation was practically nil. Hence, Dr. Compton now prefers to believe that the cosmic rays come from within, not without, the Milky Way-that they whiz around inside it like rats in a trap, prisoned there by the gigantic magnetic field...
Three thousand miles away, the California racing fans saw a less exciting race but made some profit. Lawrin, so overwhelming a favorite in the field of three that there was a minus pool in the parimutuels for the first time in the history of California racing**, won as he pleased...
...percent of all books sold in the U. S. are sold in New York City and its leading favorite outsells the headliner of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco combined. Thus a new novel like Howard Spring's My Son, My Son!, now leading the field in New York City, has just begun to sell in the West and South, although its total sale of 12,000 copies last month puts it ahead of the most popular books of those regions. Surprisingly The Importance of Living was selling widely in the country at large, while...
...Chicago does two percent of the U. S. book business. At Marshall Field's, the biggest Chicago bookstore. My Son, My Son! was the ranking favorite, with Middle Westerners showing a surprising interest in The Basic Writings of Sigmnnd Freud...