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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift. Application of the "ergodic" theorem has proved very useful, said Dr. Wiener, rushing into a mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems on turbulent motion still remain, but Wiener's enthusiasm for harmonic analysis was so intense last week that California Tech's famed Eric Temple Bell was moved to cry: "Who will rid me of this turbulent fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Turbulent Fellow | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...chestnut tree, planted the other end in a gallon of tannic acid. Within a day, the acid working upward with the sap had begun to check the fungus. Once the parasite was killed, the trees began to flourish again. For protection the acid tanks were allowed to remain connected to the taproots for several months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tree Medicine | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...assure ourselves that this hemisphere at least shall remain a strong citadel wherein civilization can flourish unimpaired. The Dominion of Canada is part of the sisterhood of the British Empire. I give to you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Axis? | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Protests were submitted against the atrocities-atrocities unheard of in any civilized or even uncivilized government-but all the protests voiced by Moslem countries and all the Moslem world remain unheeded. Indeed, they are. disregarded in such a manner as to constitute an insult to all Moslems. A Moslem cannot let himself be insulted or disgraced. Consequently a jihad has become imperative, the duty falling on every Moslem to sacrifice either himself or money. The jihad is intended to save holy Moslem Palestine from people who are playing with its destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Fatal Fatwa | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Tricinella spiralis is a microscopic roundworm that enters the human digestive system in undercooked pork, and burrows into the lining of the small intestine. Result: abdominal pains, diarrhea, muscular tenderness, even high fever, delirium and coma. Trichinae, which rarely infect children, may remain with a patient till the end of his life, often wander in the spinal fluid, lungs, heart, retinas and milk of nursing mothers. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Archibald L. Hoyne and Abraham Alvin Wolf of Chicago reported a new form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Trichinosis | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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