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...Iron grows softer, glass harder. Squeezed water turns solid (''ice") in five different forms, one of which does not melt until heated to nearly 212°F. Under the increased pressures announced last week, two more kinds of ice are formed, one of which can be made hotter than boiling water without melting. Professor Bridgman reasoned that even more fundamental changes might occur in his materials if he could squeeze and twist them at the same time. Therefore instead of letting the vertically opposed cylinders (1¼ in. in diameter) compress the substance directly, he inserted between them...
...surface temperature of the sun is measurable by spectroscopic analysis. Into the much hotter centre, only physical theory can penetrate. The theory must answer two questions: 1) What temperature corresponds to the enormous pressure of pure radiation, exerted from inside, that keeps the sun distended in a stable shape, prevents it from collapsing by gravitational force? 2) What temperature is necessary for the continuous release of atomic energy, that is, consumption of matter as the raw material of radiation? Sir Arthur Eddington believes an internal temperature of 20,000,000° C. is enough. Sir James Jeans thinks it must...
...evening, taking Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West, and two of his female secretaries, Franklin Roosevelt motored out into the Maryland countryside for a picnic supper. For the still hotter weekend, he took Senator and Mrs. Wheeler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Johnson aboard the Sequoia to fish on the lower Rappahannock...
...action. Congressmen spend their legislating hours in the air-conditioned Chambers of the House and Senate.† If they were to leave Washington most of them would have to do without any air-conditioning at all, would find temperatures at home as hot as in Washington, if not hotter. Undoubtedly the lobby putting the most pressure on Congress to adjourn...
Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...