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With the proper accompaniment of supernatural reaction, the airing of Crimson crew victories was snapped Saturday on Lake Cayuga by a powerful cornell eight in the teeth of a tempest. The defeat was the first in eleven starts since the Navy race...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Rain, Sleet, Hail Pelt Varsity Eights as Cornell Crew Snaps Crimson's String | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...originally intended as a glorification of James II, but since it appeared after the Glorious Revolution, it suddenly lost every bit of political significance. It also lost any legendary accuracy, and emerged as a merry little fantasy about fairies and such, rather in the spirit of Shakespere's "Tempest." The work was immediately taken to the English national heart, and it remained popular for several centuries, provoking a number of revivals. Few of this generation have heard it, since the last presentation was in 1935 by a BBC company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

Proud of the tempest he had started, Mayor Houde got in the last word: "They say I'm crazy. Well, just let war come and we'll see who's crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Houde for Dictators | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...leading democracy of the world. Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies or do they lie with the totalitarian states? The present tempest in a teapot is stirred up by the fact that a Frenchman flew in a test plane which France quite legally was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wives | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...heavy element similarly created some years ago by Italian Physicist Enrico Fermi. Hahn obtained ekarhenium, all right, and something else he did not expect, which he identified as atoms of barium and krypton. He applied the principles of quantum mechanics (atomic mathematics) to find out how much of a tempest in a test tube occurs when ekarhenium breaks up into barium and krypton. Answer: 200,000,000 volts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Accident | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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