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...band doesn't play "A Bicycle Built For Two," the effect is quite convincing if not entirely stylish. Another show-stopper hides under the title of the Newest Sensation on the High-wire, and the star (also new in the States) manages to skip a three-foot rope nearer the ceiling than anywhere else. Before and after his dance he walks up and down a slanting wire, and, though he sways back and forth some, he hasn't slipped yet and may live as long as one of Ringling's elephants. These last, by the way, are the biggest thing...
With the wheel spinning at 18,000 r.p.m., the sound has a pitch of 24,000 cycles-too high for the normal human ear. But if two sheets of paper are placed in the beam, the nearer is cooled by the air blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once Mr. White held his hand in the path of the silent sound waves. He felt a "scintillating" sensation, as if his skin were covered with rapidly alternating hot and cold spots. The hand was not damaged. Ultrasonic sound is no comic-strip death ray; 99.98% of its energy is reflected...
...when the College is nearer normal, there should be a general plea for an honor system, coupled with determination to enforce it on the student level, it might be put gradually into effect. Such a move could have the advantage of creating a healthier attitude toward college courses and exams, but the result also can be disastrous. The few dishonest people around will stay dishonest and make the honor system a farce unless the social pressure favoring it is enormous, and at the present there is no such pressure. An alternative at some schools that ostensibly have no policemen...
...bomb (a German scientist escaped from Russia last week said they would soon have it). If equalization took place in this way, Washington would probably learn about it from Geiger counters capable of "hearing" radioactive particles thousands of miles away. When those Geigers begin to click, war will be nearer...
Since that day, nearly 21 years ago, H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor has moved two steps nearer the throne, and has learned, among other things, never to yawn in public officials' faces...