Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee last week issued a nine-point questionnaire for all Senate aspirants to answer. Sample question: ''Have any public funds or political patronage, with your knowledge and consent, been used by others in behalf of your nomination or election to the United States Senate?" Only by his answering "Yes"could investigation of a candidate be precipitated...
...Rightists have planted more than 20 large guns of German make in the hills around Algeciras, commanding Gibraltar; a number of long-range 5.9-inch weapons have been installed along the coast "so placed that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more guns, ranging in size from...
...that time which neutral observers considered a "cosmic clearance"-i.e., a victory for Compton (TIME, Jan. 13, 1936). By that time most cosmic ray workers were speaking in terms of particles, and photons were dropping rapidly out of the picture. Among the mass of evidence for particles, one key point is that the fact that they respond-as electrically inert photons could not-to Earth's magnetic field, showing variations by latitude...
...rotation should receive a few more rays than the back of the planet, just as a child riding a carousel in the rain should be struck by more drops in front than in back. This should result in a small daily variation in cosmic ray incidence at a given point on Earth, as the earth's own daily rotation swings that point from front to back of the galactic movement. Some observers claimed that such a variation, of 1% or less, was actually recorded in their meters...
...Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman who wishes to die in the odor of sanctity, permit me to hit the sawdust trail. Just to indicate how faulty is my scheme of reference in general, may I point out that some 15 years ago I resided in a charming hotel at the head of the Spanish Steps in Rome and did not know for two weeks that it was a brothel. A man such as that is capable of any mistake...