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Last week Dr. Philip Rodney White of the Rockefeller Institute's Princeton laboratories took a long stride toward solving the problem, and incidentally spilled much wind from the sails of the cohesion theorists, by announcing that he had found enormous pressures in the roots of tomato plants-pressures high enough to serve tomato plants hundreds of feet tall. The trouble with previous pressure experiments, it appeared, was that they were made on dead or dying roots. At Princeton, Dr. White has an apparatus which keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass...
...Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement...
...already the University Museum of Comparative Zoology has scooped all other expeditions by stepping into the breach with a fish collecting trip to Cuba this winter which was announced yesterday. Although failing to realize the true significance of the shark question, the Museum has nevertheless made a great stride in the right direction. Concentrating on small fry is their only mistake; it is the mob leaders, the tops of the racket, who must be eradicated...
...chosen subsea subjects, it has usually focused on a stricken boat on the seafloor, has peered in at anguished men gasping for air, sweating great globules of mineral oil (which looks more sweaty than sweat). The undersea mishap that climaxes Submarine D-1 is taken in a reassuringly even stride. Under the unruffled direction of Lieut. Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised...
...enough, Widener presents another apparently insoluble problem in the front steps. For anyone of nearly normal stature, it is impossible to go straight up or down these steps with-all using a restrained gait that can be described only as "mincing." And if two steps are included in one stride, the general effect is that of a gallop, certainly unbecoming to the Widener at-phosphere...