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Used on a distant nebula, this speedometer indicated that it was traveling at the rate of 2,500 miles an unheard-of rate of speed even for astronomy. Mathematicians worked over this and other results to prove that the distant nebulae are in some manner tangled up in the outer folds of the universe, so that their light waves are being broadened by the Einstein effect rather than by their speed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Sun One of the Relatively Small Stars in Milky War"--Shapley | 8/8/1933 | See Source »

Author Fisher does not share the popular superstition that childhood is a happy, happy time. Certainly the childhood of Vridar Hunter was not happy. Eldest son of a poor Idaho farmer and his puritanic wife, Vridar grew up in a shack where food was scarce, comfort unheard-of, with no companions but his younger brother and sister. His parents did not think farming the noblest occupation of man; they were grimly determined that their children should get an education and escape to something better. Vridar was a sensitive, delicate child, subject to convulsions and haunting fears. The sight of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unhappy Days | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...ladies in the age of Victoria. Handsome young Antiope (Elissa Landi), assistant general of the Amazon army, is incredulous when told that Greek troops, all males, are threatening the Amazon capital. Her sister, Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) is amazed when one of her counselors suggests that she try the unheard of experiment of marriage. She ridicules the idea of staying faithful to her silky little groom (Ernest Truex) but agrees to the ceremony because her treasury is running short of money and his mother has plenty of it. The main trouble with The Warrior's Husband is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...which is true, but others ask, "What will happen to the price of silver if India and China dump in the market some of their hoarded billions?" Hard times in the hinterlands have already brought silver back to the bazaars. The stock of silver at Shanghai reached the unheard of total of 322,000,000 oz. What will happen if the biggest buyers become the biggest sellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Silvery Hopes | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...take care of 2194 undergraduates and graduates in the matter of athletic facilities was then unbelievable. Even the number of fields in use, and which must be kept in shape, have added not 150 per cent by many hundred per cent to our requirements. Compulsory training for Freshmen was unheard of. The Harvard Athletic Association was operated mostly by part-time men. The Graduate Treasurer, at the head derived most of his income from the practice of law, and apparently his greatest job was to handle the football tickets in the fall to the satisfaction of the Harvard graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham Defends High Cost of Athletics in Annual Report To President Lowell--Traces Growth of Sport in Houses | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

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