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...projects. Westinghouse succeeded in building a generator nearly twice as powerful as any built before, without any increase in size. Formerly generator coils, which revolve almost as fast as a pistol bullet travels, would burn out if the current were increased above 135,000 kw. But Westinghouse, using hollow coils cooled by hydrogen gas, was able to almost double the capacity without increasing the size. (TVA is now spending $9,500,000 for two of these 250,000-kw. giants...
...spare-time dabbling in such occult sciences as prophecy and mental telepathy, Godfried Bueren, 70, a West German patent attorney, never lost his amateur enthusiasm for astronomy. Finally, he announced, he had learned something that professional astronomers don't know. The sun, asserted Herr Bueren is a hot, hollow sphere, a million miles in diameter; inside its fiery shell floats a cool core, 600,000 miles thick and lush with vegetation. What's more, he had 25,000 marks ($5,945) that said he was correct about...
...government organ. So it was with high hopes that we watched the installation of a new Secretary, and listened to his assurances of reform. But last week's amazing revelations of sabotage in the Voice of America division prove the "cleanup" in high places to be a hollow mockery...
...Hollow Ring...
...doubts are not only on principle. The specific ingredients in the Provost's package seem to ring hollow when their equity is tested. First, a more liberal dispensation of towels and tickets will naturally increase the costs of the athletic program. Thus, the cost per student, even when spread among everybody, could not appreciably slash the present cost of a participation card and a ticket book, which presenty mounts up to $170 for four years. This is a large chunk, even when stretched over a college career...