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...potential of the tides has been one of man's pet schemes.* It remained for the power-short French to translate a major scheme into action. Last week Electricité de France, the nationalized power combine, announced that work would start next spring on a $57 million tidal project near Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast...
According to Astronomer Kuiper, the moon formed close to the earth some 5 billion years ago in a common atmospheric envelope, much like a double-yolked egg. Both bodies were surrounded by a swarm of small satellites. As the earth solidified and the oceans formed, tidal friction sent the moon moving out into space...
...Harvard Medical School, has pointed out that "the period from 1910 to 1950 is referred to so often as the 'golden age of medicine' that I sometimes wonder if we have forgotten that all that glitters is not gold." The inundation of a teaching programs by a tidal wave of new facts tends to submerge the medical student and to obscure for him the principles of medical science...
...home York County had ever heard of until eight months ago. On top of that, the state house of representatives went Democratic 111 to 99, and the state senate returned a bare Republican majority (27-23). Never before-not even when fun-loving George H. Earle rode the tidal crest of the New Deal wave in 1934 -had Democrats come so close to making a clean sweep in Harrisburg...
...wavy lines of normal pressure changes, the charts showed jagged variations on March 1, March 27, April 26, and May 5. The first and last were the biggest. News also came from the tide gauges. On the same four dates, the water level showed abnormal fluctuations, the tidal impulses arriving about one hour after the atmospheric ones. Nothing was reported by the electrical instruments. They had not been listening at the right times...