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...boost them around the other side of the circle at higher speed. After another half-circle the reversed voltage hits them again, and so on. The deuterons go spiraling outward, faster and faster, toward the rim of the tank. After being kicked 100 times by 50,000 volts, they attain speeds of 5,000,000 electron-volts. As they approach the rim of the tank, they are guided by a deflecting plate through a window and thence against any target the researchers choose...
...years of screen experience. With their portrayals in the latter, Luise Rainer and Paul Muni reach as high a perfection as any actor and actress have yet done on the screen. Both films are exponents of the tremendous power in magnitude and impressiveness the motion pictures can attain...
...have not decided what causes stars to explode. Something seems to go wrong with the delicate mechanism that keeps the outward force of radiation pressure balanced against the inward force of gravity. Then the star throws off rapidly expanding shells of hot gas, increases greatly in brightness. Ordinary novae attain a maximum brightness about 25,000 times that of the sun. Therefore, since the difference between actual brightness and apparent brightness depends on distance, novae have provided important clues to the distances of the nebulae in which they occur. About 130 novae have been recorded-most of them found...
...testified that "flying fishes gain the momentum to get into the air with their rigid wings by a surface taxi of from 5 to 15 yards at a speed of about 10 yards a second, comparable to the speed of the best sprinters. This speed is attained by a sculling action of the tail fin. . . . To attain, the speed necessary to get into the air, an average of 50 to 70 complete or double vibrations [of the tail fin] a second are necessary...
...Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good to be a white god. Before they attain the mines he is required to demonstrate white magic in the form of an opportunity-scheduled eclipse. Umbopa proclaims himself the rightful, monkey-furred Kukuana chief...