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Last week New York's Communist Councilman Benjamin J. Davis explained why it is Communists all think and act alike. "Communism is a science," he declared, "and science is the same everywhere. H2O is water in Moscow and H2O is water in America. We are not against water because it happens to be HoO in Moscow. It is ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Gentleman, Very Timid | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...disturbance, such as heat or shock in the presence of certain impurities, shatters the barrier. Every oxygen atom grabs two hydrogen atoms. Every pair of nitrogen atoms, deserted, grabs a single oxygen. In consummating these unions, the atoms generate enormous heat-and the salt flashes into gases: superheated steam (H2O) and nitrous oxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Restless Molecule | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...office. When he arrived at the Cleveland fairgrounds and saw the waters of Lake Erie rippling at his feet, he decided to stage a revue in and on the water, a sort of marine circus. He immediately had a dolphin tattooed on his chest and went around saying, "H2O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marine Circus | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely in arrangement than it resembles its own gaseous form, steam. "We are just beginning to know what water is," he said wryly, "although we have been calling it H2O for more than a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three Prizes | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...ready to begin shooting last September, he had employed a trio of cameramen, all able, all Left-wing in politics. Ralph Steiner, 37, gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called Redes for the Mexican Government. Leo Hurwitz has excited Leftist audiences with shorts on the "Scottsboro Boys" and a Washington hunger march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Documented Dust | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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