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...believe that modern war is not an efficient instrument of protection. It seems likely that long-range guns, aerial bombs, both explosive and gaseous, and hunger blockades would so develop that the slaughter behind the lines would exceed that at the front...
...earliest living presidents of the Association, Dr. Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago, dean of American geologists, and now past 80 years of age, lectured on Seventy-Five Years of Geology. The nebular hypothesis of the early gaseous state of the earth, changing through liquid to solid, proposed by Laplace in the 18th Century, has now largely been superseded by an entirely new theory of origins known as the "planetesimal hypothesis," and largely developed by Dr. Chamberlin. The earth probably never passed through a gaseous state. Volcanic action is local and arises from special causes. The earth...
...eclipse was among the apparatus used by the expedition, which has been called by Dr. Miller the "best equipped single expedition that has ever gone out to observe an eclipse of the sun." Other apparatus included a two flash spectroscope with which to obtain spectra of the corona,--the gaseous haze surrounding the dark disc during totality; an Einstein camera, the gift of Professor C. L. Poor of Columbia, and especially adapted to proving the Einstein gravitational theory, and a new type of interferometer called the "etalon", designed to detect motion in the Corona. In addition the apparatus included...
...oscillations occur in a fairly regular manner, and that the phenomena of maximum or minimum heat recur in periods of about 11 years. This length of time is intimately connected with the number of 'sun spots', the radiation varying directly with the amount of solar disturbance indicated by the gaseous eruptions, or spots...
...work upon which Mr. Dunbar was engaged when the explosion occurred was not of an experimental nature, but consisted of pumping oxygen in the gaseous form from a balloon in a shed outside the building by means of a compressor with water-lubricated cylinders into a tank. It should be said that this is a standard process constantly carried on in commercial plants. How the oil which caused the explosion got into the tank in this particular case is the problem which we are making every effort to solve in cooperation with the State authorities...