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...Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople were huddled in strong structures on the sand bluffs back of Corpus Christi, waiting. Suddenly the black clouds parted, the moon shone through, the rain ceased. There was an ominous silence. Moonlight lay yellow on the rain-soaked trees, rippled and rolled over the cotton fields like a saffron wave as the wind veered and puffed unsteadily. Then the hurricane struck. A shrieking wall of air came out of the Gulf, driving...
...Fair's general manager (TIME, May 22), enacted a 1:30 curfew. On none of the three following nights was any patron of the hot spots evicted before 3 a. m.. The concessionaires complained that the only chance they had to make hay was while the stars shone. To them, President Rufus Cutler Dawes replied...
...propagandizing America," exclaimed Dr. Frank W. Chinglun Lee, onetime Foreign minister of China, now special envoy to America and adviser to the Chinese legation, in an animated address delivered last Saturday before a gathering of the Chinese Student Clubs of Harvard and M.I.T. Patriotic zeal shone from Dr. Lee's wan features as he urged upon the gathering the need for unity and action. "China does not want war." he said. "Every move she has made since September 18, 1931 indicates her desire to cooperate with other nations for the peace of the world. But China will not tolerate forceful...
...Purdue University (Lafayette, Ind.) Physicist Karl Lark-Horovitz last week showed big magic lantern pictures of atoms in action. In oldtime magic lanterns, a strong light shone through an illustrated glass slide. A lens projected an enlarged image of the picture upon a screen several feet away from the lantern. In Dr. Lark-Horovitz's arrangement the screen is a sheet of sensitive photographic film 9 ft. from the lantern light. The lantern light is a vacuum tube projecting a strong beam of x-rays. For slides he used a thin sheet of copper or shallow containers of volatile...
General Robert E. Lee, astride his white horse Traveller, shone bravely from the frontispiece of the Confederate Veteran's December issue, published last week in Nashville. Beneath the picture was the caption: "I can only say that he is a Confederate Gray." It was the magazine's farewell salute, after 40 years' service. Death had cut the ranks of Confederate veterans to 4,500. Depression had forced the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which kept the magazine alive in recent years, to withdraw its support. Circulation of the final issue was 6,000. Its peak had been...