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...heads, it does nothing of the kind. Both sun and moon, when overhead, actually "pull up" on us, their gravitational action counteracting that of our own planet, so that our heads and all other earthly objects are physically lighter at high noon and under the moon's zenith than at other times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weighing Moonlight | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...Phophets etc. Said Rotarian Keck over the radio: "I'm going to take a fall out of Sinclair Lewis. . . He's due for it. If he were a big enough man to tell the story straight, it would be all right. But he fixes up a little city of Zenith, or whatever you call it, and has a little Rotary Club, and tells everybody that a Rotary Club is a bunch of big, bumptious, small-town boosters .... Of course there is in every Rotary Club a spirit of good fellowship and a lively interest in any proposition that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...three planes had previously been equipped with Zenith short wave radio sets-the product of a company reported to be headed by E. F. MacDonald, second in command to MacMillan. The Navy type is a long wave set, believed to operate better than the short wave type when a plane is in flight. It is also better for radio compass work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the North | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

Leora - Leora Tozer - was a probationer in the Zenith Hospital. She looked up from scrubbing a floor, grinned at self-important young "Dr." Arrowsmith; sassed him, understood him, made him her life. She was untidy, not brainy, not pretty. But her genius for living matched Arrowsmith's capacity for work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lie-Hunter+G3931 | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

...first race of a five-race series, Betty, of England, danced across the finish a couple of minutes ahead of Paumonok, of the U. S. Zenith, of England, took a good third. Point total of first race: England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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