Word: magnetism
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...appoints him special investigator of some cases involving illegal stock promotion. Moreno pursues his investigation even though his girl Abbey (Florence Rice) asks him not to. At a public hearing on the financing of a suspicious gold-mine invention, Moreno's trick with a tomato and a magnet ruins Abbey's family fortune, but she loves him anyway...
Meanwhile in Italy the King & Queen and Crown Prince & Crown Princess entertained the Görings, and this week they were to holiday briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy...
Research has conclusively demonstrated that sunspots are huge solar cyclones, whirlwinds in the solar atmosphere, accompanied by pronounced magnetic conditions, according to Andrews. Each sunspot, assumedly as the result of the whirling of electrically charged particles within it, is a huge magnet...
...Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands off the wheel. I was ready to grab and hold her, but the car stopped in a dead straight line as though snatched by a vast magnet...
Cruft boasts that with no outside aid its eight machanics have built a ten ton water-cooled magnet, a hydraulic press exerting a force of 70,000 atmospheres, a battery of 100,000 volts, hugh switch boards, five foot vacuum tubes and a unique short-wave radio station, WIZJ. A ninety-two ton magnet for unclear physics investigation is contemplated. The shops work all summer and have over 2000 parts in stock. Some eighty research men work with the Cruft and Coolidge machinery and mechanics, among whom are two expert glass-blowers...