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Elucidating the great universe of stars and spiral nebulae and abysmal reaches of space, Dr. Einstein advanced in 1915 his General Theory of Relativity, which brought celestial performances into the four-dimensional theatre of space-time and made gravity an effect of space-time's curvature. Today Relativity is as familiar a guide to astronomers as a radio beam to an aviator...
...Lindbergh (LL. D., Northwestern and Wisconsin) put his mechanical wits to work and in May 1931 was able to publish anonymously in Science a skimpy description of a pump which Dr. Carrel desired and he designed. It consisted of a spirally coiled glass tube, resembling a hot water heater. The top opening of the Lindbergh tube was connected to the bottom opening by a straight glass tube, and the liquid sealed into the closed tubular circuit. By standing the coil on end and wobbling it, centrifugal force pushed the fluid up to the top of the spiral. There the fluid...
...international exchange fiscal experts pulled long faces "because Belgium is the first country which has already devalued since the War to devalue a second time." If the world is to be plunged into an endless spiral of devaluation, each nation in turn undercutting the others, they could view the fiscal future with no optimism whatsoever...
Stalled for the first half, Minnesota's steamroller started rolling in the second. A homecoming crowd of 59,000 at Minneapolis saw Pug Lund spiral passes that averaged 44 yd., Stan Kostka batter Michigan's line to bits, Julius Alfonse scamper 76 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota 34, Michigan...
...ready to receive a pass when the man. with the ball is about to be tackled (see cut). Tackling around the neck is permitted in rugby. The game has the technique of football, the pattern of hockey. Cambridge players last week learned one trick from Harvard: the spiral pass, for more distance and accuracy on a line-out after touch...