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...TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dishonored Prophets | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Around effete Eastern streams, trout that size are merely measured, not weighed, and an 18 or 19-incher like the General's, if referred to at all, is called "a nice fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Successful Debris. Previous cyclotrons, they explained, had just chipped away at the atom, knocking off two or three small particles. But the 184-incher's bullets cause such havoc in atoms that researchers have so far been unable to sort out all the debris. Said one of the California scientists: "With the old cyclotron of 225 tons [60 inches], we could knock two or three floors off a 50-story building, or maybe add a floor or two. But with the new cyclotron, we can knock that 50-story building into a flock of four-room bungalows, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithereens | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Whitford hitched another photoelectric cell to a telescope, this time Mt. Wilson's giant 100-incher. As the bands raced past, they knocked from the cell a fluctuating electric current. Dr. Whitford shot the current into an "oscilloscope" to make the fluctuations visible. He took a picture of their pattern of peaks and valleys, then measured the diffraction bands, and from them calculated the diameter of the star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazers | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar, hopped up momentum without his crutches, hurled himself over in a standard "western roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 4-Efforts | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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