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...Strauss for next year. The recording is excellent. Songs & Ballads: Love is Like That and You're the One I Care For (Columbia)-As usual Ruth Etting's appeal heads the list. Her mood is comparatively gay. Would You Like To Take a Walk and One Little Raindrop (Victor)-Mr. & Mrs. Frank Crumit (Julia Sanderson) with jaunty accompaniments. When Your Lover Has Gone and Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Victor)-Gene Austin has an easy way which records perfectly. His tunes this month are worthy of him. Dance Records: I Surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...such superspeed been achieved? German engineers answered last week "chiefly by streamlining the Bremen's hull, by fitting her with a unique bulbous bow." Every layman knows that air friction against a raindrop causes it to assume a bulbous foreshape and to taper off behind-this being the form which offers least resistance to the air. With daring originality, the Bremen's designers gave her below the water line somewhat the shape of a falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bremen Uber Alles | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Something in It. Last week his title was Matter-Is there Anything in It? Very little, was the answer. Though a drop of water contains some three billion trillion (21 ciphers) hydrogen atoms, there is little that is really "solid" present. If each atom became as large as a raindrop, "they would cover the earth with a foot of water." Yet, "if we made ,one of these hydrogen atoms, which we used to think of as hard and indivisible, so large that it became a yard in diameter, nothing would yet be appreciable, because its electron would still be only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...raindrop on my window plashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY OF HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

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