Word: seeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More than ten years ago Dr. August Dvorak (no relative of Composer Dvorak), a professor of education at University of Washington, invented a new typewriter keyboard which he proved was faster and less fatiguing than the old standard keyboard designed in 1868 (see cut). But so far only 1,000 machines with the Dvorak keyboard (available from most typewriter manufacturers) have been sold. Dr. Dvorak had about despaired of teaching old typists new tricks when last week University of Chicago reported remarkable success in teaching the Dvorak system to children...
...American's Stinsons, trailing a four-pronged hook from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly, the dangling hook snagged the stretched rope with the mailbag attached (see cut). As the monoplane picked up speed and began to climb the mail clerk in the cabin hauled in the bag by a winch, quickly had it aboard for sorting...
Without, some 200,000 people packed St. Peter's Square, eager to see a Pope crowned in public for the first time since 1846 (before the Popes became "prisoners" in the Vatican). The people waited patiently while, within, Pius XII went through long rituals. At last the Pontiff appeared on St. Peter's balcony. The great moment arrived. Cardinal Deacon Caccia-Dominioni chanted "Accipe tiaram" (Receive the tiara). The crowd below saw the Cardinal lift the gem-studded, beehive-shaped triple crown of the papacy and place it on the head of its wearer. Then the multitude dropped...
Diplomacy. Forty nations sent diplomatic missions to the coronation, including the U. S., represented by Ambassador to England Joseph Patrick Kennedy. Germany, however, sent no envoy. What were to be the relations between the Third Reich and the Holy See, was the biggest question of Pius XII's first week of rule...
...Garbedian's book is illustrated with several photographs never before published. One of these shows Einstein lecturing at the age of 26, when he had just launched the theory that revolutionized physics by destroying the age-old idea of absolute time (see cut). This week, on the day of the book's publication, Albert Einstein was 60. On his birthday he hinted that he had at last developed a "unified field theory" which would link his picture of the universe with the accepted scientific view of the behavior of the atom...