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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys had to be supplied with everything else to support life. None of the islands is more than 20 ft. above sealevel; none is forested; none has fresh water. Accordingly, camping equipment was landed as well as food supplies and drums of drinking water sufficient to last the colonists until the Itasca returned. And on the theory that the islands' designation as British on some world maps might...
...only a small-scale irregularity, tended to disappear when larger sky areas were polled, deeper penetrations into space made, the obscuring effect of dark matter allowed for. Now the galactic distribution in the observable sphere approaches uniformity. Dr. Hubble last week compared the population density to tennis balls 50 ft. apart. This he believes represents a dependable sample of the universe beyond the visible limits. The actual limits may never be reached except in the unlikely event that an instrument is built to see all around the curved space of Relativity...
...airplane 2,200 ft. over Dayton last month tumbled a bulky Army doctor with a parachute rip cord in his hand, a determined gleam in his eye, and, since it was his first jump, a tremor of 'fear in his heart. For 1,200 ft. he plummeted end over end at 119 m.p.h. Then he pulled his rip cord, jerked upright as the parachute opened, floated serenely to earth, well pleased because he had just made the first scientific analysis of the "subjective mental and physical reactions to a free fall in space...
...first second of fall there was a horizontal velocity of about 175 ft. per sec. and a vertical acceleration . . . of about 16 ft. per sec. At the same time there was a tumbling motion of the body making a complete revolution in about two seconds. Of all these motions . . . the only one recognized was rotation of the body. . . . During the third and fourth seconds, the eyes were voluntarily closed and during that time all sense of motion was lost. . . . The sensation was that of being suspended at rest in midair. When the eyes were opened, which was at an altitude...
...Stones), one of the better companies which serve 10,000,000 U. S. readers with 100,000,000 words of pulp fiction per year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...