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In professional football a ball is not down unless its runner is completely stopped. A forward pass may be thrown from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. The goalposts are on the goalline, instead of 10 yards behind. How these rules open up the game 30,000 spectators saw for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bears Over Giants | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

A feature of the relativity theory . . . is the absoluteness of the velocity of light. -Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. The speed of light is perhaps the most fundamental of all the constants of nature. -Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. Speed-of-light . . . that most fundamental constant.-Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inconstant Constant? | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Dolly Stark's Big Green five rolled up a high score in defeating the Crimson basketball team by a 54-20 margin in the first Eastern Intercollegiate game Saturday night at Hanover. The Hanoverians flicked the ball into the hoop from all angles and from the middle of the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INVULNERABLE WARRIOR TEAM SWAMPS CRIMSON | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Prizeman Werner Heisenberg of the University of Leipzig is a self-assured young German who enjoys his scientific prestige as much as he does playing the piano. His father is Professor of Medieval & Modern Greek at the University of Munich; an uncle is a Manhattan braid manufacturer. He has visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Youth & Atoms | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

This coming Saturday afternoon the Army band will parade on Soldiers Field in all its resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARCHING ALONG | 11/7/1933 | See Source »

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