Word: magnetically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SILVER MAGNET-Grant Shepherd -Button...
...Silver Magnet Grant Shepherd does not answer these questions, or explain exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion...
...provincial lawyer, Clim Samghim, who flirted all his life with the revolutionary movement, drifted with the winds of doctrine without ever finding harbor in a cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published as The Specter, showed Samghim just as irresolute as he had been in the preceding 2,000 pages...
Early experiments with electricity and magnetism disturbed this mechanical view. Faraday and Oersted showed that a moving magnet produces an electric field, that a moving electric charge produces a magnetic field. The lines of force in these fields were not arranged in Newtonian straight lines but in curves. After curved fields in space came waves of energy. The wave theory of light, which had been opposed by Newton, was picked up again because it was the only way to explain certain phenomena-for example, the diffraction rings produced when light passes through a small aperture. Before electro-magnetic waves...
During the past month workmen have been laying the concrete floor of a big new laboratory next to the old building. In this a tremendous cyclotron with a 220-ton magnet will be installed, hurling deuterons at 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 volts, alpha particles at 24,000,000 to 40,000,000. When completed the new building will contain biochemical laboratories and a clinic. San Francisco's late William Henry Crocker gave $75,000 for this project, the Chemical Foundation $68,000, Dr. Lawrence estimates that he needs about $35,000 more. Designer...