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...volts through a simple tube, are building a bigger one for the 16,000,000 volts which lightning often strikes at their experimental station in the Alps (TIME, June 29). The great problem has been to store up stupendous amounts of electricity which could be sent crashing through stout tubes. If power were great enough physicists are sure that they could propel heavy protons as well as light electrons at naked
...middle names to hide the humiliation of a simple Herbert, or modest Henry concealed in the first initial. Who was this man Jones? A study of the catalogue reveals that he is either a 19th or 20th century dramatist. Obviously he is a man of the people with a stout English heart, otherwise he would never have sought the oblivion inevitable to his name. Probably he was associated with the Irish movement. This, we must grant you, is purely intuitional on our part but faith has often succeeded where cold reason has feared to tread. Ireland, the home...
...Stout, bald, genial Newshawk Lewis is known throughout Berkshire Country. He keeps no working hours, wants no diversion other than traveling about, gathering homely little items for his paper, chatting about his favorite oldtime news stories. Unmarried, Reporter Lewis lives alone in a lodging house. That, says he, is how he amassed $20,000: "I'm thrifty, and you can live in Lenox for $4 a week...
Walter's double-barreled feat was not new. Conductors sat at harpsichords before they ever thought of standing up in front of their orchestras, waving the first stout batons. In just such a fashion big, bewigged Handel made music for the Londoners of King George I. In the U. S. Karl Muck and Willem Mengelberg have conducted from keyboards...
...pretty little Russian woman became that warrior, sounded his battle cry heroically. Next minute you could have believed her to be a whole band of Cossacks restlessly awaiting the approaching Tartars. Then she prayed, as a Siberian tribe long-vanished prayed to Kalaidos, its God. These were the stout, earthy beginnings of Nina Tarasova's first U. S. recital in five years...