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Howard Evans is the blunt headmaster of the Betteshanger School in Dover, England. Headmaster Evans believes in good bodies, declares that a man who develops a "monstrous girth" commits a social crime. Three weeks ago he debarked nine of his cheek-blown, beef-eating Betteshanger boys in Manhattan, had them show U. S. citizens proper methods of breathing and exercise. Last week, having seen as well as shown, Headmaster Evans prepared to ship his brood back to England, paused to observe that the average U. S. boy was superior in physique to the English boy. But he added a warning...
...loss in London last November (TIME, Nov. 29), many an observer wondered how soon Mr. Hearst would begin to sell the rest of his hoard. The total Hearst collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx, and reported rumors that besides a dim array of armor and some mummies it contained two palaces and a church, in pieces...
...diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite plunged on underground, shattered the rock strata into rubble, came to rest at last 1,200 or 1,500 ft. below the surface...
...star is a shell of gas electrified by light from Epsilon Aurigae, in the same way that the electrified shell or "radio mirror" around earth is maintained by radiation from the sun. This phenomenon has never before been observed in a stellar atmosphere. Actually, Epsilon Aurigae's monstrous, almost transparent companion has not yet been seen or photographed. It was deduced from spectrographic observations made on Epsilon Aurigae. Its size, constitution and temperature were determined after it passed in front of Epsilon Aurigae in 1929-30, like a cloud in front of the moon. It took nine years...
...hands in just such a crisis, was that thing. Secretary Hull promptly announced, with as much politeness as he could muster, that he was unable to perceive either "the wisdom or the practicality" of the measure. Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor denounced it as "monstrous." The President-in response to whose wishes the House Military Affairs Committee reported favorably on a bill forbidding unauthorized sketches or photographs of U. S. fortifications and equipment-obviously opposed it. Since the resolution is framed aj a Constitutional Amendment, it would need a two-thirds majority in both houses. Chance that...