Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent trip to Africa, Mr. Haeseler directed two films, each of which presents a comprehensive survey of tribes on that continent. The first, "Berber Tribes of North America", was made in connection with an expedition from the School of Anthropology of Oxford University. The film shows the primitive water-clock, by which these people measure time. The film "Bedouins of the Sahara", shows the life of the nomads both in camp and oasis...
...Tearned apiarist in the state of Washington has discovered a scheme for the delusion of his pets equalled only by that of blindfolding the mule who pumps the water or of putting electric lights in the hen-house. He plans to put his bees, after they have fondly and hopefully gathered a store of honey during the summer in Washington, into a box and, keeping them literally in the dark as to his nefarious intentions, allow them to hibernate trustfully, secure in the knowledge of work well-done. Then he will ship them to Australia where, when they are aroused...
Between Columbia and Lexington on the Saluda River a lake to impound 100 billion cubic feet of water and generate 261,000 h.p. is abuilding by the new Lexington Power Co., subsidiary of General Gas & Electric Corp...
...Cold Moon. One late afternoon when the Moon was early up, astronomers at Mt. Wilson observatory focused their 100-inch telescope on her and with a thermocouple found her heat, absorbed from the sun, to be 159° F. ( Water boils on earth at 212° F.) While they were measuring, Earth passed between Sun and Moon, causing an eclipse. Moon's temperature dropped to 196° below Zero. Less than an hour later the lunar temperature was 155° F. Edison Pettit and Seth Barnes Nicholson, who reported this, estimated that when no sunlight reaches the Moon...
...uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...