Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver and oil. For the wording of his statement made it perfectly clear that he had withdrawn his subsidy in retaliation for President Cárdenas' seizure of $400,000,000 worth of foreign oil investments (TIME, March 28). The action had been taken, said the Secretary, "in view of the decision of the Government of the United States to re-examine certain of its financial and commercial relationships with Mexico." The "good neighbor policy" had given way to silver-dollar diplomacy...
...five months spent covering nearly all of Europe, able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief in the League...
Besides these events to view with alarm, Messrs. Rockefeller, Fosdick and their fellow trustees had, however, one particular achievement at which they could point with pride: a vaccine to conquer yellow fever. From 1900 (when the late Dr. Walter Reed proved that a mosquito transmitted yellow fever from man to man) until 1932, sanitary experts fought yellow fever by taking measures to prevent mosquito breeding. In 1932. however, Brazilian medical men discovered yellow fever cases in jungles where no yellow fever mosquitoes existed. How jungle yellow fever is transmitted remains a mystery...
...founding of steeplechasing was retold more frequently than usual-how one hot night in the early 1770s a befuddled country squire led his guests out in their night-shirts, mounted them, and led them in a wild race over hedge, fence & field to distant Nachton Village Church steeple. A view of the finish of that first steeplechase was engraved by John Harris in 1839, the year of the first Grand National. That year and for over two decades afterwards all steeplechases had a faintly unsavory character. Gentlemen of the Jockey Club supervised flat racing, but any toffer could ride...
Early experiments with electricity and magnetism disturbed this mechanical view. Faraday and Oersted showed that a moving magnet produces an electric field, that a moving electric charge produces a magnetic field. The lines of force in these fields were not arranged in Newtonian straight lines but in curves. After curved fields in space came waves of energy. The wave theory of light, which had been opposed by Newton, was picked up again because it was the only way to explain certain phenomena-for example, the diffraction rings produced when light passes through a small aperture. Before electro-magnetic waves...