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...most inconsiderable planets, star dust and gas contain as much matter as all the known stars. To congeal into stars, these 1/250,000-inch dust particles would require more billions of years than the calculated age of the universe-were it not that gravitation and the pressure of light whirl the dust in cur rents and thus speed up its condensation so immeasurably that Whipple "expects to witness the birth of highly luminous and massive super-giant stars." Cosmic radio signals, which physicists have traced to the Milky Way, can also be explained by these dust currents, Whippie thinks...
...weeded hypotheses down to this one : that stellar rotation too is caused by interstellar dust, colliding like hail stones with the stars. While the sun rotates with a velocity at its equator of only* Messier 51 in Canes Venatici (The Hounds) twelve miles per second, the stars of Aquila whirl at 9,360 miles per second. At such speeds, stars become unstable and shed rings of hot gas. Thus, as some stars are born of dust, others are destroyed...
...maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico...
...volts in a transformer, then jumping it through a straight vacuum tube at a target from which X-rays are emitted. Now, in effect, the betatron combines transformer and vacuum tube. Instead of circling round & round a magnet in a coil of wire, as in a transformer, the electrons whirl through the empty space inside the doughnut-shaped vacuum while their voltage increases...
...grapples. Yet within this limitation it achieves a certain power and vitality, fully expressed by the Repertory's able cast. Life in the post-war twenties is depicted as a vortex of ever-accelerating tempo which sucks in both young and old, and crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky in the second act, louder and louder as his sensitive mind is driven close to insanity by the chaotic scene that surrounds him; his solution in the third...