Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME concurs heartily with President James Bryant Conant's decision. To Blue Hill Observatory's meteorologists, felicitations on their accurate forecasting...
GEOGRAPHICAL: Your story leaves the impression there were only Hill Billies there, from the Smoky Mountains. That's like saying all aviators are from Kitty Hawk, N. C., for that same year the Church of God did inaugurate its return at Camp Creek, N. C., same year the Wrights first flew at the other end of the State. The Church of God is now firmly established with some 4,000 congregations in 44 States-22 foreign countries...
Last week work got under way. WPA diggers attacked Plummer Hill with spades. Two steam shovels swung into action. Under the technical surveillance of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Ohio State engineers, one 600-ft. tunnel barrier and two mile-long barricades, part tunnel and part opencut, will be laid down. Holes will be filled with sludge, shafts and cavities sealed to cut off air. Incidental coal dug out during the operations will be distributed gratis to those who need...
...England-South Africa record, smashed his landing gear, withdrew. With five planes left in the race, Capt. Stanley Halse, South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions...
...Reported was the successful making of x-ray moving pictures with a home camera and 16-mm. film. Drs. William Holmes Stewart, William Joseph Hoffman, and Francis Henshall Ghiselin developed the technique at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. The heart of the problem was to get a sharp, clear x-ray image on a fluoroscopic screen. The sharpness of the image depended on 1) the brightness of fluorescent material in the screen and 2) the length of time a patient may be subjected to x-ray transillumination. The invention in England of a zinc sulphide preparation which gave...