Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first quarter of the century records had their first boom. Disc-fans of that period paid the late Enrico Caruso alone some $3,000,000 in record royalties. What they paid for was a croaking shadow of Caruso's ringing voice. But in the days of hand-cranked Victrolas, even shadows were marvels of scientific progress. When the radio arrived in the early 20s, Victor Talking Machine Co., with Caruso as its biggest name, was doing more than half the industry's business to the tune of more than $50,000,000 annually...
Philosopher. Both ancestry and environment made Maurice Gamelin a soldier. He was born in 1872 (the year after the Franco-Prussian War) in Paris at No. 262 Boulevard St. Germain, just across from the War Ministry, in whose shadow he played war games as a child. His mother even painted a charming picture of him at the age of 20 months, beating a toy drum (see cut, p. 20). On his father's side he was descended from at least five generals, one of whom served under Louis XVI. His father, Zephirin Auguste Joseph Gamelin, became Controller General...
Last week, as the shadow of war hung over Europe, the war planet, baleful red Mars, hung bright and big over the world. Astronomers were particularly interested in the red planet, for (in astronomical figures) Mars was very close to Earth and getting closer every minute. This week the space gap between Earth and Mars dwindles to 36,030,000 miles-the nearest approach in 15 years. Astronomers have been scanning and photographing Mars for weeks, this week will redouble their efforts. But to the old and battered question which still fascinates laymen-does intelligent life on Mars exist-astronomers...
...McNutt should not be regarded more seriously as a candidate than any of a dozen other charming young men. What their friends in the "sticks" might try to do for them, said he, was beyond their control. Thus, for the moment, was Candidate McNutt relegated to the shadow of his superior, and the press thwacked one more time...
Brag or Fight. Robert Hooke was an able, mechanically talented scientist who suffered the misfortune to be a 17th-Century contemporary of the great Isaac ("Falling Apple") Newton. He was embittered by having to live in the shadow of Newton's greater glory. But frustrated Robert Hooke saw, named, described and pictured living cells, and he appears to have been the first to do so. Thereafter numbers of other scientists saw and studied cells.** For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules." Then Hooke...