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...Moist Pebble. Not all the society's concerns are mechanical. Lectures this winter will cover psychological and philosophical problems. B.I.S. members believe it is not too soon to think seriously about such matters - that the age of space flight is not far away. A speaker at one meeting asked a ringing question: "Looking out across immensity to the great suns and circling planets . . . can you believe that man is to spend all his days cooped and crawling on the surface of-this tiny -this moist pebble with its clinging film of air?" The members answered unanimously with resounding noes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out Across Immensity | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Amid the closing hubbub, Alger Hiss sat motionless, staring straight ahead. Priscilla Hiss watched him, her eyes moist. At last she took his arm and they walked out together. Hiss said, "Please, please," to questions and walked on. Outside, they got into a red Chevrolet with some friends. Photographers rushed to the windows. Alger Hiss hid his face behind a magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

United State Weather Bureau forecasters at Logan Airport were not interested in Tom Collinses or $20 fines. Coldly statistical, the Bureau said that its thermometer hit 85 degree yesterday at 3:30 p.m. and humidity was up to a moist 61 percent. Record temperature for the same day was 100 degrees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...victims. It is not sight, for mosquitoes are almost blind. It is not odor; no odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims at a distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mosquito Mysteries | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Making baseball history is a cinch with the help of a moist pad concealed in the hollow of his pitcher's mitt. Every time his wood-repellent ball comes steaming across the plate, it takes a neat little hop over the advancing bat. In no time, Miland is the star pitcher in a heated World Series. Everything, in fact, is going fine until his roommate and catcher (Paul Douglas) starts using the precious solution as a hair tonic. This leads to some minor plot complications and further belaboring of the film's one gag, which has already been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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