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Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...
...Otto Hahn, 60, of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and his coworker, F. Strassmann, had bombarded uranium with neutrons. In the products of bombardment they found something which seemed to be atoms of barium. This barium was the clue to something terrific. For the huge uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, weighs 238 units.* The barium atom weighs 137 units. Since the barium could have originated only as a fragment of the big uranium atom, it was logical to suppose that the latter had cracked asunder, in two nearly equal parts. The release of atomic energy...
...change leaves the team perhaps one of the most perfectly balanced teams that Harvard has over had. Starting with the 121 pound weight through to the heaviest class, the team promises to present an impressive record at the end of the year...
...mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through it all,--the quarter-mile race that clinched the meet for Brown, the ovation that followed it, and the tiring session with representatives of the press afterwards--the man who was bearing the heaviest burden of the loss was standing erect and calm, surprisingly unruffled...
...parties, left or right, usually show their greatest gains when times are hard. In evenminded Belgium, however, this trend is often reversed. Last week, a time of international if not national stress, the Belgian electorate voted overwhelmingly for the moderate parties in the municipal elections held every six years. Heaviest winners were the Socialist and Catholic Parties, supporters of Premier Paul Henri Spaak. Even the pro-French Liberal Party, thought to be losing its hold, showed wide gains. Heaviest losers were the Communists, Rexists and Flemish Nationalists. The pro-Fascist Rexists blamed their losses on the fact that their...