Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich two Sundays ago, Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Germany's No. 1 anti-Nazi prelate, preached in his cathedral on "The God-Given Rights of Personality," to the accompaniment of rude whistles (which he ignored) from Nazis in his congregation. Last week, at the height of Germany's pogroms, Cardinal Faulhaber asked for police protection for the Catholic clergy. Instead he received, from District Leader Adolf Wagner, a snarl: "If Faulhaber mends his ways, he will be protected better than the police can protect him." Thereupon a Nazi mob ganged up to the Cardinal's palace, smashed...
Shown for the first time in London was the only known portrait of Picasso, painted at the height of the Cubist movement by one of Cubism's great saints and Picasso's great friend, the late José Gonzales or "Juan Gris" (John Grey). This ex-engineering student said, "The only possible pictorial technique is a sort of flat-colored architecture," used few brilliant colors, painted his Hommage à Picasso in green, brown and grey...
...past four months physicists of the National Bureau of Standards at Washington have been sending clusters of small sounding balloons to great heights in the upper air. Purpose: cosmic ray research. The balloons carry Geiger-Müller cosmic ray counters, barographs, automatic radios which send signals to a ground station every 15 seconds, recording the altitude (in terms of air pressure) and the intensity of the cosmic bombardment. Last week Drs. L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin reported that one cluster of six balloons had reached the remarkable height of 23 miles (about 120,000 ft.). This...
...appears that about twelve miles up there is a rich mixture of primary rays and of secondary rays created by collisions between the primaries and air molecules. Above that height the air is so thin (i.e., molecular targets are so few) that the secondary radiation falls off. Below twelve miles the total intensity also declines because more & more of the primaries are absorbed by atmospheric resistance...
After the War, Burns and bazooka toured in smalltime vaudeville for ten years, rose to the height of running his own carnival show. In 1930, when vaudeville collapsed, Burns tried radio and pictures. Finally Rudy Vallee gave him a part on his program. Burns was a hit and his income thereafter zoomed. As estimated for tax collectors, it was $1,500 in 1934, $9,000 in 1935, $100,000 in 1936 and $400,000 last year, when he not only played second leads in Paramount pictures but shared top honors with Bing Crosby on Kraft Cheese broadcasts and wrote syndicated...