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...queer feeling we had when Virginia and I saw a Japanese plane burst in the air and disappear in a huge cloud of black smoke which in dissolving showed us tiny silver like pieces of the fuselage as they fluttered to earth...
...current Physical Review Dr. Street undertakes to answer the mass question-approximately, not exactly. He took 1,000 photographs of cosmic ray activity in a "cloud chamber," an apparatus in which water vapor condenses in the path of ionizing particles as droplets of fog which can be photographed. Dr. Street rigged his apparatus so that the condensing value would operate not instantly when an ionizing particle passed through, but one second later. This allowed the fog tracks to spread a little, enabling him to get a better count of the droplets...
Consequence of the Texas maneuvers, which started two months ago, is likely to be a wholesale reorganization of the U. S. Army. What went rolling over Texas' dusty roads last week, sometimes by day in a cloud of dust, sometimes at night with an endless, ominous growl of motors, was something the like of which not only Texas but no one else in the U. S. had ever seen before. It was the "P. I. D."-Proposed Infantry Division-which, under consideration for two years, was being tested for the first time under combat conditions...
With a whinnying of trumpets and a rolling rataplan of drums, the curtains at Manhattan's Shubert Theatre parted this week to disclose two apparently naked gods reclining on a cloud, their bare bottoms perked toward the heavens, their amorous gaze fixed on the somewhat startled audience. The bare bottoms were moulded of impersonal papier-mache, but the silver-bearded Jovian head on the left was unmistakably that of Alfred Lunt. Theatre Guild subscribers, present for the Manhattan opening of Amphitryon 38, settled back expectantly in their seats. They realized that Jupiter Lunt's eyes were not feasting...
...time," said he last week, "as I tried to read the Bible against God's wishes all the leaves came out." He says that one day when he was 14 years old and working in a cornfield, the figure of God appeared on the east edge of a cloud and showed him a great flood destroying the world. After that he was careful to follow divine instructions...