Word: swann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind that congeals mine at a distance and whose lucid brilliance keeps mine muscle-bound as it were and reduced to impotence.") Trying his hand as a publisher, Gide pulled one of the greatest boners in literary history when he turned down a first novel by Marcel Proust: Swann...
Starting this week, the Army Air Forces, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society, will make a series of long flights in a B-29 specially equipped to study cosmic rays. Scientific boss of the flights will be Dr. W. F. G. Swann, Director of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation...
Cosmic rays are not only hard to observe but hard to understand. Dr. Swann believes they are protons and positively charged helium atoms which smack into the earth's atmosphere at enormous speeds. Where they come from, no one knows for sure...
During the projected flights, Dr. Swann will measure the frequency and direction of the rays at various altitudes and latitudes, using electronic instruments which register when a ray hits them, and tell the direction it came from. The Army's experiments will be more immediately practical. They will expose various metals and other materials to the rays, at high altitudes, and try to determine how they are affected by them. Such information should come in handy, the day rockets swoosh out above the atmosphere...
These and other subversive facts are reported, in the interest of international friendship, by a free-lance writer named T. Swann Harding in a recent issue of the American Journal of Pharmacy. Following the unoriginal theory that nations are partisan toward their own heroes, Harding found that most science textbooks and their readers are full of such national misconceptions. "Laymen," says Harding, "customarily hear of the last fellow who put it [the discovery] across. . . ." Some Harding findings...