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...trace of a radiation that came neither from outer space nor from earth's radioactive substances. It seemed to Professor Rossi that in darting through sheets of metal the primary cosmic rays gave birth to a secondary radiation of electric particles. Two other physicists got on the scent, found that the secondary particles were generated in the form of showers-like spray from the splash of passing cosmic rays. Then Professor Rossi hooked up a new arrangement of coincidence counters, made further discoveries about the spray, which last week he reported. Coincidence counters are multiple arrangements of individual counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Spray | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...these "frescoes" is a personification of the U. S. landscape as a naked girl: She lies on her left side her flank golden: Her hair is burned black with the strong sun: The scent of her hair is of dust and of smoke on her shoulders: She has brown breasts and the mouth of no other country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Poems | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...sounds of a diver talking through a sea of molasses. How stupid all this was! Just last night, or was it last night? he had been dancing with the most beautiful women in all the world. Their faces still floated around him, and he could remember the faint scent of sachet. A Junior Usher can muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping him in an aura of honeyed words. He could feel the pulse of the orchestra and see the colored revolving spot ferret out the sparkle in some darling eye or sprinkle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 7/6/1933 | See Source »

...Airedale originated last century when middle-class and laboring Englishmen in the Aire River Valley tried to improve the scent and watermanship of their local terriers by crossing them with otterhounds. First called Waterside terrier, the new dog was renamed Airedale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Dogs | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Here the controversialists missed a point. The hounds Dean Bratenahl blessed scrambled off not after a fox but after a little scent bag in a drag hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hounds & Heaven | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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