Word: gobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...
...Kenneth Overlin, Washington ex-gob: the New York State version of the world's middleweight title, by a 15-round decision over "bolo-punching" Ceferino Garcia, Los Angeles Filipino; in Manhattan...
...such temperatures hydrogen atoms are whipped up to speeds around 100 miles per second. A hot gob of sun-matter would thus tend to expand and dissipate into a formless cloud. Hopeful theory was that this tendency would be counteracted by rapid cooling in open space...
Lately Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr., a National Research Fellow at Harvard, mathematically analyzed the conditions which would exist in the gob of hot sun-stuff. He showed that, even under the most favorable conditions, expansion would take place more than 100 times as fast as cooling-therefore that a planet would never have a chance to form. In the Scientific American last week his work was explained by Princeton's grey, gentle Henry Norris Russell, a great authority on the solar system, under the gloomy title, "A Famous Theory Weakens...