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...most powerful U. S. generators of electricity to shoot at atoms are Professor Lawrence's 5,000,000-volt generator at Berkeley and Professor Robert J. Van de Graaff's 10,000,000-volt one at Round Hill, Mass. Professor Lawrence gets his effect by whirling a loin. disk in an 85-ton magnet. Last week he said that he was substituting a 40-in. disk, to get 20,000,000-voltage. In Professor Van de Graaff's machine moving paper belts brush static electricity upon huge metal balls. A modification, for which he already...
...seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump blow after blow at Sharkey's head, then at his body. After ten fast savage rounds, the judges unanimously gave the decision to Chicago's Levinsky, highly elating the onetime...
...definition of Gandhism as "goats milk, loin cloth, etc." is offered as a comic caricature, one can appreciate the writer's sense of humor. But if that is all he sincerely discovers in Gandhism, his state of mind is to be pitied. Gandhi would not resent being dubbed as a "renegade, philistine, etc," by his critie, for he would find himself in a distinguished company of many of the foremost communist leaders of yesterday, that may be joined by many more of today...
...deplore the law compelling me to fine young men for the natural and healthy act of rolling down their bathing suits to the waist," declared Judge Stafford. "The day is coming when Australians will regard a loin cloth a sufficient covering and when young men will be proud to display fine, manly, suntanned figures...
...Number 15 by Brahms-Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...