Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game was only a game, but His Majesty and Premier Mussolini, together with foreign military attaches, watched with grave attention the performance of several Italian novelties in war. The so-called "ground clearing tank" duly swept all obstacles before it, thundering forward to make a path 25 feet wide on which followed less Gargantuan motorized equipment. By a characteristic dictation of II Duce, the traditional rivalry of artillery and infantry corps was squashed by compressing the two arms into integrated units, and Fascist newsorgans declared: "For the first time the artillery fought in infantry units, not merely with them...
This week, however, the Peltier comet continued to approach Earth. When first discovered it was only ten degrees from the North Star. Since then it has swung past the constellations of Cepheus and Cassiopeia in its elliptical path around the Sun. At its closest approach on Aug. 4, it will be in the constellation Aquarius, halfway from horizon to zenith in the southeastern sky. It will then be 15,800,000 mi. from Earth. Observers equipped with good field glasses or small telescopes (8-power or better) will have a fine view of the tail driven off from the comet...
...recoils in disgust at the spectacle of Beppo's humiliation. Sometimes their influence is destructive, as when Mary Amberley persuades him to seduce his friend's sweetheart, causes his friend's suicide. But each incident exacts its influence or leaves its scar, leading Anthony along some path he has undertaken or blocking his way, strengthening some belief he holds about himself and the world or weakening it, forcing him at last to see that his philosophical detachment has been an escape and his moral indifference no more than self-deception. While Helen, after leaving Anthony...
...down the land for the past six months, crossing and recrossing his path, has gone Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Christian of Japan. Nearly turned away from the U. S. by Federal immigration authorities in California because his eyes are infected with trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), this soft-faced, gold-toothed Japanese scrupulously obeyed special Public Health Service regulations laid down for his evangelistic tour. He traveled with a doctor, declined to shake hands with anyone, never entered a private home, made sure that linen and table utensils were sterilized after he used them. Last week Kagawa was in good...
...astronomically possible for a solar eclipse to last as long as 7 min. at one spot. Exceptional was this week's performance, not for duration of time or dimensions of shadow path, but because its course ran almost wholly across land. Thus a wide choice of observation sites was available. Eleven parties from the U. S., England, France, Italy, Poland and Japan set up stations somewhere along the totality strip. The U. S. S. R. outfitted 25 expeditions. One group of Russians had balloons with automatic instruments on top, which, in case of bad weather, they planned to send...