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...more than a quarter-century after he had begun, he elucidated a sunspot theory, modestly crediting its discovery to the 17th Century heretic Galileo Galilei. Sunspots, Father Ricard declared, exert a definite influence on weather conditions, cause tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, affect even the moods of animals. After observing sunspots, he forecast California's weather for long advance periods...
...airports are thoroughly inadequate. For 25 miles around Manhattan, all the land is very nearly at sea level. To the east are the sand dunes of Long Island, to the west, the tidal mud marshes of New Jersey. Her airports are too far away, are all subject to fogs which render navigation impossible. (The seaplane base in New York harbor, while decreasing the distance to the centre of the city, will still be affected by fogs.) Because of fogs, U. S. airmail removed its original terminal from Curtiss Field, L. I., to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J., a distance...
Last week the City of Washington became a game preserve. Wild ducks were lured from their natural feeding grounds on the wild celery flats of the Potomac by scattering grain in the tidal basin, Washington's sanitary device near the Washington Monument...
...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...account for the observed rotation of the sun, Dr. Joffreys of England has recently proposed the theory that the planets were formed not through the tidal disruption of the sun by the near approach of another star, but by the actual glancing collision of our sun with another star. The shearing forces of such a collision could account for the rapid rotation...