Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theories based on a collision, or near-collision, between the sun and another star. A string of planets drawn out of the sun in this way could not have so large a part of the system's angular momentum. The recent theory of Harvard's Dr. Fred L. Whipple (that the sun and the planets were formed at the same time out of a cloud of mixed gas and smoke particles) is hardly better, says Dr. ter Haar. It accounts for the distribution of the angular momentum of the planets, but not for all of the other "regularities...
Since 1936, the U.S. has had 41 major coal mine explosions. Coal mines are almost weatherproof, but Meteorologist Charles L. Hosier of Penn State nevertheless suspected that the explosions had some connection with the weather. Last week he had what looked like proof...
...later the Greystone Press issued American Sexual Behavior and the Kinsey Report, a kind of Kinsey-made-easy, without difficult graphs and tables. Price: $1.96. The authors, leftish Lawyer Morris L. Ernst and David Loth, a publicity man, dedicate their book to Kinsey and his associates, "who have enriched the market place of thought...
...Société has been more direct. It sent out a cry of distress to shrewd, dapper René de Léon, who headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...
...Léon decided to stay in Hollywood. The best juice of his brains told him that Europe's plight and the union setup made the Casino a poor investment...