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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scotland Yard was printing last week exclusively for Scotland Yard a series of maps of the Coronation Procession route drawn to the phenomenally large scale of one inch to 88 feet, showing every lamp post, fire hydrant, sewer cover. To within a few inches these maps mark minutely where the Royal Coach is to be driven...
Dirac took a short-time scale figure for the age of the universe, expressed it in terms of the atomic constant e²/mc³. The figure turned out to be approximately the same as Eddington's 10 39 . The square of the universe's age would therefore be equal to Eddington's other figure, 10 78 . Armed with these two fine coincidences, Dirac next proposed to dispense with the giant numbers and simply say that the ratio of electrical to gravitational force between proton and electron equals t, the age of the universe, and the amount...
...Johnson" and later "Mr. Johnson." It was soon evident that the present King was the only scion of the Royal Family ever to show a definite mechanical bent. Ship mechanisms became his major interest. Even today His Majesty is fond of the exceedingly intricate model railways-not "toys" but "scale models" costing in some cases up to $20,000 for a complete system...
Goodness once was viewed as woman's chief end. In a time when women compete with men in politics, business and badness, goodness and piety are seldom seen practiced on a grand scale, or recognized as such by the Press. Moreover, Papal Duchess Brady is shy, extremely apprehensive of publicity. Yet she is the foremost member of her social class in a faith which demands completely public acts of faith of its people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady-Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice-founded the Carroll...
...half a dozen showed high efficiency. All these chemicals were known before the War. Phosgene, for example, was first made by British Chemist John Davy in 1812. Making gas into a war weapon was not a matter of finding new compounds but of manufacturing known compounds on a great scale. With their splendidly developed chemical industry, the Germans had the edge throughout and Allied gas warfare was largely a series of belated retaliations. In their March 1918 offensive against the British the Germans fired half a million "Yellow Cross" (mustard gas) shells in ten days. In July gas shells constituted...