Word: magnetism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this moment, Russia finally came through in southern Poland with what the Germans called "the greatest offensive of all time" (see below). Instantly the slack in the ring around Germany snapped taut; instantly the eastern front became a magnet pulling on German reserves, including those with which Rundstedt was still toying in the west. Much was hoped for from this new Red assault, both as a military contribution and as a balm for inter-Allied political tensions...
Dominating figure on the stage is Paul Robeson, taking the lead part of Othello. The rolling bass of Robeson's voice, become famous by his years as a concert singer, draws the attention of the theatre like a magnet whenever the Moor speaks forth in his deep and melancholy tones. The giant Negro acts the part of the brave but not too intelligent warrior with exceptional understanding, giving it a depth which several of the lesser but more sparkling parts lack...
...without an adequate laboratory, Ehrenhaft has again challenged a basic concept. When an electric current passes through acidified water between iron poles, the current decomposes the water and oxygen is formed at the positive pole. It is Ehrenhaft's claim that when the two poles of a horseshoe magnet are substituted for the current, oxygen is present in the gas that rises from the north magnetic pole. Therefore, he reasoned, the water is decomposed and there must be a flow of magnetic current...
Yenan the city is no magnet to correspondents. Battered by continuous Jap bombings, it is a rubble heap inside ancient mud-and-stone walls; its inhabitants live in caves carved from the yellow loess mountains. But it is the political capital of North China's guerrilla areas with their 30 to 40 million inhabitants, and the military headquarters of a potentially powerful force of 500,000 regulars (a new high), perhaps a million irregulars...
When an electric current flows through a wire it stirs up a magnetic field going around the wire like the brass rings on a Burmese hillwoman's neck. Prof. Ehrenhaft says that, in turn, there is an electric current going around any magnetic field. He places the poles of a magnet one above the other in water-whereupon small, electrically-charged bubbles go round and round the magnetic field between the poles...