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...human eye were tuned to longer wave lengths of radiation, it would be able to see radio waves. The ethereal wiggles that gird the globe with speech and music are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stray Waves | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...X. JONES OF SCOTLAND YARD-Harry Stephen Keeler-Dutton ($2.50). A wordy, almost interminable, brain-addler is this sequel to The Marceau Case, presented as a complete dossier of photos, letters, cables, clippings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Innings: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 r h e Harvard 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 4 x--13 13 3 Long Island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TITTMANN ISSUES SEVEN HITS, TOPS LONG ISLAND, 13-4 | 6/5/1936 | See Source »

...discovery to plump, grey-haired Lady Lindsay, wife of moose-tall Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department of Agriculture. One of the Department's entomologists told the worried gardener that the insects were part of a huge and famed brood-Brood X-of periodical cicadas known scientifically as Tibicina septendecim and popularly as "17-year-locusts." The entomologist said that the insects would do little or no harm to flowers and shrubs, would make a fearful racket later on when they began to mate. Meanwhile there was nothing to do. If the gardener insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brood X | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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