Word: magnetically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foster who probed in vain. By last fortnight the needle had worked 2½ in. into Dr. Michou's flesh and was approaching his hip-joint. Dr. Foster had an idea. Calling General Electric laboratory officials in Lynn, Mass., he asked them to build a huge electric magnet...
...three electrical engineers, two nurses and Dr. Foster stood by while swarthy, black-mustached Dr. Michou stretched himself out on a big oak table. Dr. Foster made two inch-deep incisions. Dr. Michou hoisted up his buttocks. The engineers thrust a small steel cone attached to the 250-lb. magnet into one of the incisions, switched on a 3½-h.p. current. Nothing happened. The cone was drawn out, inserted in the second incision. After one breathless minute there was a tiny click. Seven voices cried...
...Publishers made the rounds themselves, bought drinks for the performers, distributed chorus sheets among the customers. Edward B. Marks is still publishing songs at 62, as acute to the value of a plug by Rudy Vallée as he was to one by Lottie Gilson, the curvey "Little Magnet,'' who in the 1890s drew tears each night at Tony Pastor's on 14th Street. Fortnight ago Edward B. Marks published a song history of the last 40 years, a book as shrewd in its sidelights on changing manners as it is in its appraisal of popular...
...University of California's Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence has accomplished atomic disintegration by whirling his bullets (deutons, or heavy hydrogen nuclei) with a magnet as fast as 2,000,000 volts would have driven them (TIME, July...
...writing a great historical novel of the Russia in which his life has been passed. Two volumes called Bystander and The Magnet (TIME, April 14, 1930 & April 27, 1931) have appeared; Other Fires is the third, next to last. Proletarian novels (say strict Communists) must have no hero to stand between the reader and the hymning of mass achievements. But Gorki's epic novel has a hero, one Clim Samghin, who is the central character in all three books. Even strict Communists should not find him uncanonical, however, for Hero Samghin is no real hero but merely a convenient...