Word: flare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continuing in Stuttgart last week was the Congress of Germans Abroad, which had caused both these British flare-ups. Speaker of the week was none other than Nazi No. 2, Hermann Wilhelm Goring. To the idea that all Germans everywhere must propagandize for National Socialism, he added a still more practical note: "Germans abroad can and must help in promoting the sale of German goods. German business firms must under no circumstances employ Jewish representatives, for the Jews have no interest in pushing German goods...
...only 8° above the horizon during totality and its darkened image was distorted by late afternoon haze. Nevertheless eclipses offer such fine opportunities to scientists to study the composition and behavior of the sun's outer envelope and to photograph the magnificent flare of the corona, that expeditions were waiting for the shadow at both these meagre vantage points. Two astronomers-James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton-decided to go to the point of maximum duration in a 6,000-ton freighter. They planned to take snapshots with hand cameras...
...ground crew dangling from a line. Two presently fell to their deaths (TIME, May 23, 1932). With this spectacular incident in mind, all four newsreel cameramen at Lakehurst had turned their lenses on the Hindenburg's ground crew at the crucial moment, thus missed the first flare of flame. The investigators last week appealed for any amateur film which might shed new light...
Tuberculosis Never Cured? One of the most animated controversies in tuberculosis work is over the origin of tuberculosis in adult life. Is it a new infection or is it a flare-up of disease contracted in childhood and long quiescent? Dr. Henry C. Sweany of Chicago, after autopsying 700 patients whose life-long histories he knew, was convinced that in about half of the adults who die of tuberculosis, the childhood infection flared up. In the other half, a secondary infection developed because immunity lapsed...
Such a one was Nova Herculis, the famed "new star" of 1934. After its first brilliant flare-up, this nova dropped below naked-eye visibility, down to the 13th magnitude, then recovered to magnitude 6.7, where it remained fairly steady for months. Late in 1936, astronomer David Belorizky of the National Observatory at Marseille, France, noticed that certain lines of the nova's spectrum were double. If a source of light is approaching, its spectrum lines are shifted to one side; if receding, to the other side. Therefore the doubling of the Nova Herculis lines indicated motions both toward...