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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clean air and through Harvard's coronagraph, with its birefringent filter. He finds the sight a perpetual three-ring circus. From the dazzling surface of the sun (well screened by his gadgets), enormous gaseous solar "prominences" leap in graceful arcs at several hundred miles per second, driven by unknown forces (see cut). Little "spicules" (big enough to be seen at least 93 million miles away) jab up and fall back in four minutes. The ghostly corona waxes and wanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Artificial Eclipses | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory is looking forward to intensive basic research in aural rehabilitation for deafness in war causalities of which there are 40,000. "The ultimate aim of this work is to find out how the car works," Professor Stevens remarked and added that a great deal was still unknown in this field of research...

Author: By Shane E. Riorden, | Title: New Psychology Lab Stirs Aging Mem Hall Into Life | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

...return to experiment marks this first Dramatic Club production of 1946. After a substantial period of repertory works by Shakespeare, Moliere, and Maxwell Anderson (sic), the HDC has turned to the brothers Capek and a play that to American audiences is virtually unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/13/1946 | See Source »

...Unknown to his trackers, West also was carrying $200, a cash debt collected from a friend the day before he disappeared. Police and private investigators had been working on the assumption that he had only $10 with him, since no checks cleared his account in a Milford Bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amnesia Carries West on Jaunt to Florida and Cape | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

...foreign policy carefully. Republicans achieved the majority in Congress with precious little said about foreign affairs. Thus the confusion within the G.O.P. on just what form American internationalism should take went by unnoticed. Distaste for Truman's domestic polities gave rise to an imposing carteblanche delivered to men of unknown sympathies. By 1948 Americans will know whether the Republican Party has become the new apostle of business like world cooperation or the avant-grade along the road back to the economic isolation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Right Rudder | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

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