Word: spins
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With a flashing of 84 rectifier tubes and a chugging of six great electromagnets, the world's biggest (300 million volt) betatron started operating last week at the University of Illinois. Betatrons look something like cyclotrons, but instead of spinning protons or heavier particles, they spin lightweight electrons...
...obscurity in the records does not bother Dr. Velikovsky, who spins his theory out of threads snipped out of the ancient tangle of folklore. Myths and popular legends are full of catastrophes. Many ancient peoples, for instance, lived in fertile river valleys. They suffered from floods, and were apt to magnify big ones into widespread deluges. They usually worshiped the sun in some form, and were therefore apt to spin myths about times when their god or gods' behaved oddly. Velikovsky makes a large collection of these catastrophe myths and insists that they refer to the visits...
Thin Drippings. Except for some "thin drippings" on cultural subjects, says Lynd the summer curriculum consists mostly of the so-called "professional" courses, which spin out "the simplest teaching procedures into astonishing lists of redundant offerings." Teachers College of Columbia, for instance, gives no fewer than ten course; in Audio-Visual Education, with an eleventh in "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials." Says Lynd: "There seems to be a transcendent mystique of administering anything in the schoo world more complex than a pencil...
...appear since the war, the laureate's publishers have mercifully excluded their author's dutiful little odes to George VI, Franklin Roosevelt, Princess Elizabeth and young Prince Charles of Edinburgh. The 24 poems that make up the volume are echoes of a sturdier Masefield who can still spin a tale of a country prizefight, drop a tear for the rifled tomb of an old king and enjoy the sense of friendly ghosts in Hilcote Manor. They are only echoes of the Masefield of Reynard the Fox, Enslaved and Dauber, but if they are unlikely to win the poet...
LeBaron, who had hurt his throwing arm in practice, threw only six passes. His famed double-spin as T-formation quarterback was rusty and his sleight-of-hand fakery ineffective as his line kept caving in. His net yardage from scrimmage was minus 43; Celeri's was almost as bad-minus 39. After the game, LeBaron made the day's most sensible observation: "There's no substitute for a coach." But the highly partisan crowd was happy; LeBaron...