Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous novels, The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled, Frederic Prokosch has shown a facile imagination and a brilliant hand at silken, vivid prose. Ostensibly a narrative of travel from Syria to China, The Asiatics told of hair-raising adventures, lubriciously glamorous encounters, incredible coincidences and cosmic conversations with the casual air of an article in the National Geographic. More Spenglerian than picaresque, The Seven Who Fled brought together to their mutual doom seven characters symbolic of European races, let them slowly disintegrate with their bewildered sensuality and inter minable talk into the vast oblivion of Asia...
...Champion. Edna St. Vincent Millay was born a native-daughter of Maine, but she early began to crow like a child of the universe. At 19 she had already written Renascence, a long poem on cosmic possibilities that put contemporary poetry-scouts in a dither of great expectations. When Millay settled down in Greenwich Village, after graduating from Vassar in 1917, she was widely accepted by literary professionals as the most fascinating prodigy in America...
...like Curry's bully Ajax. Others who sometimes wonder why Grant Wood indulges in such painstakingly stuffy satire as Honorary Degree (see cut) could admire his slick Seedtime and Harvest. Subtler was the humor of whimsical Doris Lee, who in her Winter in the Catskills successfully unrolled a cosmic panorama of mountain as a backdrop for a skater's spill...
...Tasmania for the first time, Dr. Millikan will use a new, streamlined cosmic ray counting apparatus. It is a light structure of four shelves, enclosed within an oval framework about three feet long, covered with black cellophane to keep out light. The two upper shelves in the black football each contain two Geiger counters, or ionization tubes which detect the arrival of cosmic ray particles. On the shelves below the counters are eight radio tubes. Connected to the counters and tubes is a light, compact short-wave radio transmitter with an aerial. When the apparatus is attached to a balloon...
With his new instruments Dr. Millikan hopes to measure not only the amount of cosmic ray radiation in the equatorial zone, but also the main direction from which the rays are coming...