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When the heat-ray image forms on the plastic, the "bright" parts of it are warmer than the dim parts. Their heat passes through the plastic and evaporates part of the oil film, making it locally thinner. When light is turned on the oil film, it glows in the bright "interference" colors of an oil slick floating on water. The colors have nothing to do with the real colors in visible light of the object that Eva is viewing. They show thin or thick parts of the oil film-and therefore outline the object by its temperature. Hot parts show...
...left Promoter Jack Kramer with a real problem : Can Tony learn his trade fast enough to make the tour a success? If not, Big Jake will have to go back in training himself, and Tony's first-tour salary will seem much smaller as it stretches out over thinner seasons...
...understand this conflict, one must realize that through the ages the shape and form of the single scull have changed remarkably little. True, form time to time artisans have managed to make them thinner and lighter, and this year the boathouse has added a fiberglass shell. But the basic concept of rowing has not changed...
...outlook for Hiss was the subject of some reflection by Whittaker Chambers. On his Maryland farm, where he is also doing some writing, Chambers, who is now much thinner than he was before his two major heart attacks in the last two years, observed: "Alger Hiss will be passing from the ordeal of prison to the ordeal of daily living, which may well prove more trying. Hiss is approaching the most difficult moment of his life." Next day, a reporter relayed this thought to Hiss as he arrived at his Greenwich Village home. Asked Hiss tersely: "Was that his hope...
According to Chapman's theory, the ring of gas (thinner than the "vacuum" in radio tubes) is formed by the action of the earth's magnetic field on streams of ionized hydrogen that blast out of the sun. As the protons and electrons from the sun approach the earth, they are deflected away from it by magnetic forces. Some of them settle into a ring above the earth's magnetic equator.* Eventually, they escape, curving down to the atmosphere to cause certain kinds of auroras. Their departure weakens the ring current, but it is soon restored...