Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calculated what it should be theoretically, after discounting the effect of the magnetic field of the sun. On making this correction, the observed variation was practically nil. Hence, Dr. Compton now prefers to believe that the cosmic rays come from within, not without, the Milky Way-that they whiz around inside it like rats in a trap, prisoned there by the gigantic magnetic field of the galaxy, while electrically neutral starlight escapes to the outside...
...Compton prefers this explanation for another reason. If the cosmic particles were thought to come from outside the Milky Way, it must be presumed that all space is filled with them, that they represent a vaster total of energy than star light - in fact, the greater part of the energy of the universe. If they are of Milky Way origin, however, their intensity is reasonably set down as an effect of "local" concentration...
...muddy track and top weight of 130 lb.) after Seabiscuit was scratched. Leaving the post, the four-year-old Riddle colt was not in front as is his custom. Menow*, a three-year-old rated as merely a sprinter, splashed mud in War Admiral's face all the way round, won by eight lengths. The great War Admiral, in his first defeat in twelve starts, finished out of the money for the first time in his career...
...mighty Golden Gate Span. Before that, motorists used to pay a minimum toll of 60? to be barged over the same routes on ferries owned by the Southern Pacific Company. Last year, with both bridges charging a 50? toll, the ferries began to undersell them by charging 30? one way, 50? round trip. San Francisco suspected that the Southern Pacific's rate-cutting didos might have something to do with the road's scheme to sell its ferry franchise to the State Toll Bridge Authority for some $3,750,000. Last summer the Authority appealed to the State...
...hogs with hand extinguishers, firemen who braved the terrific pressure to attack it with hoses. After a grim night of defeat, tunnel engineers resorted to extraordinary tactics. Slowly, pound by pound, they began reducing the air pressure in the fire-swept section. Just as slowly, the air wall gave way and the river it had been holding out began to muck in. In half an hour, it half-filled the section, doused the fire...