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...burdened with debts, worry, obligations to relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain away their incomes. A sentimental and static tale despite this promising dramatic setup, The Sound of Running Feet ends inconclusively with little more than the presentation of the dilemmas of the characters, although when Gregory's union plans fall through he decides to marry Mureth anyway. What Employer Luth's prophetic dream meant, Author Lawrence does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hounded People | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...radio frequencies can also be guided along a cable, if the stations are fixed arid if the cable can carry a wide enough frequency band. Such an arrange ment enables the cable-carried waves to be fortified by amplifiers at intervals along the route, minimizes tonal losses due to static and fading. Such a cable is the famed coaxial cable developed by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s research subsidiary, Bell Telephone Laboratories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coaxial Debut | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Before a select gathering of 75 scientists at the Harvard Observatory Friday afternoon. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, advanced a startlingly new explanation of the origin of cosmic static...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Whipple Explains Cause Of Cosmic Static Signals | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

Several years ago the physicist Jansky discovered a peculiar static signal that appeared to come from the center of the galactic system. The cause of this phenomenon has never been definitely affirmed, and yesterday's revelations shed a good deal of light on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Whipple Explains Cause Of Cosmic Static Signals | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

...Whipple's theory, which was contained in a paper read by him held that the origin of cosmic static lies in the extreme low temperature radiation in the center of the Milky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Whipple Explains Cause Of Cosmic Static Signals | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

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