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...sizzling surface. Last week Chemist Robert Browning Sosman of U. S. Steel Corp., announced that by extending the principle of the magnifying glass he was able to capture half of the sun's 6,000º heat. With a big specially-built heliostat (reflector) he reflected sunlight on a focusing mirror; the mirror concentrated the rays, focused them on a piece of zirconium oxide, which melts at 1960º C. The zirconium oxide was liquefied. Chemist Sosman estimated he had produced a temperature of 3,000º...
Despite its relative incoherence, it is a moving play, bathed in that keen atmosphere of sunlight setting on northern mountains which is typical, of Ibsen in his last and profoundly poetic phase. All things considered, the performance, Friday evening, was remarkable for its delicate teamwork. All the players were competent and sympathetic, but first laurels should most certainly go to Miss Kim as Irene for a performance of astonishing beauty...
Minuscule King Prajadhipok in a white dress uniform, the sunlight gleaming from his new spectacles, stood on the bridge, beside pretty little Queen Rambai Barni. Glittering with decorations, a delegation of relations and officials were waiting under a red-&-green lacquer pagoda. Not a sound came from the crowds on the shore until family greetings were over...
...beginning of the nineteenth century two earnest young men set out to write a book of poetry. The world stared back down the alley of the 1790's shivering. Napoleon was squinting in the sunlight as the nations stacked their guns before him. A handsome Austrian with a hooked nose sat devising a system founded upon those grievances against which Robespierre had hurled a reign of terror. The past lay in the burying ground of dead ideas. The present was a battlefield. There was no future...
Most important and final matches-the national individual rifle match and the national rifle team match-were run off under bright sunlight. These matches are shot under like regulations with the standard U. S. Military Springfield 30 calibre: 50 rounds rapid and slow-fire at 200 yd., rapid-fire at 300 yd., slow-fire at 600 yd., 100 rounds slow-fire at 1,000 yd. Squinting in the glare, 1,727 contestants sooted their sights with candles, tightened their slings, commenced firing at 5:50 a. m. over glistening grass. When the last shot cracked out, split the target...