Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along came Max Planck to knock this assumption into a cocked hat with his discovery of bundles and jumps. In 1900 Planck announced that radiant energy could only be propagated in tiny, indivisible bundles which he called quanta. Furthermore these bundles did not proceed through space continuously, but by jumps. It was not long before experimenters were finding this lumpiness and jerkiness everywhere. Albert Einstein used it to explain photoelectric action. Subatomic explorers found that atoms had only a fixed number of orbits in which their electrons might travel; that the electrons jumped from one orbit to another with emission...
...enough for two-started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack to retaining his championship when the race committee reached a highly controversial decision: to disqualify Fink...
...waistcoat and wing collar, a prominent gold chain suspended across the expansive stomach. "Fancy Dress Costume, for Fete Days on His Yacht" showed a headless Long John Silver clad in pirate's costume, a crutch tagged "1929" under one arm, a bag of money in one hand, a hat bearing skull & bones and the word "Corsair" (Morgan yacht) on his head. The fourth costume was striped trousers and shirt, a green-flowered apron, blue gloves, green-rimmed spectacles, shears, trowel. Title: "Gardening Frock, for Horticultural Moments...
...Yankee team has stepped out on a ball park. Last week he reached the total of 1,308 consecutive games, beat Scott's record. Not counted toward his record were Yankee exhibition games and 19 World Series games. During that amazing run Gehrig, who never wore a hat, over coat or vest until he was famous, has knocked out four home runs in one game (1932), 47 in a season (1927), won the title of the American League's most valuable player...
...HATTER MYSTERY - John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). London's jolly hat stealer makes a grave error, brings scandal and murder to a proud family. Reluctantly, rotund Dr. Fell finds the guilty member...