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...most valuable single contribution to airplane efficiency since the War" was the epithet that Chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics last week placed upon a new form of cowl for radial air-cooled motors. The cowl, shaped like a huge bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only...
Secretary Kellogg's plan is to draw up a group of similar treaties with Japan, outlawing every kind of war, making the United States a kind of radial centre of world peace. France has declined to enter upon any such agreement, and is confident that the other great powers will be equally unwilling to agree on a pact which would so openly flout Article X of the League of Nations. This article guarantees that the territorial integrity and political independence of member states is to be preserved against external aggression. France has other objections in her Locarno security pledges...
...unpleasant fact is, however, that the effects of this sluggishness have been such as to make a repetition of the error next year undesirable. It is only natural in a university whose intellectual life centers so about its library that any sudden pressure on this nerve center sends radial waves throughout its sinews...
...fixed" stars appear in motion. The static universe of the ancients has become dynamic, and the astronomer may wait centuries for correct conclusions in regard to those motions of the more distant stars. Three things, however, seem well established as a result of study of both proper motions and radial velocities. These are: (1) the motion of the sun in space above mentioned; (2) the common motion of certain groups or clusters of stars, the two most notable examples of which are the Taurus and the Ursa Major groups; and (3) leaving the sun's motion out of account...
...only way in which this frightful waste can be stopped is by a radial changed in our education methods. What we need is a differentiation between the good minds and the poorer ones. Then we may go ahead with intensive, individual instruction for those men who have proved themselves worthy of it. At one end of the scale we do differentiate. We look after the blind and deaf we put the feeble-minded in special institutions. It is time that we provided special training to utilize to the fullest extent the best mind of the country...