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...springs and set the model shaking by means of a motor. At most speeds they saw little motion in their "molecule." There were, however, three speeds at which definite vibrations developed. The balls representing the atoms moved over paths of a pattern characteristic for each speed. To the delight of Messrs. Kettering, Andrews & Shutts, the relation of the speeds to one another coincided almost exactly with the relation of vibration lines in the spectrogram of water. Thereupon they built "molecules" of benzene, toluene, carbon tetrachloride and methane and found that they worked almost exactly according to current atomic theory, thereby...
...megalomaniacs are the thumping big round numbers of U. S. business. Biggest and roundest of all are life insurance numbers. Insurance men delight in rolling off the $108,800,000,000 of insurance in force, the industry's total resources of $21,000,000,000. That sum is larger than the U. S. national debt. The companies' annual income exceeds the normal Federal budget. Insurance men love to relate that U. S. insurance companies hold for investment more than 20% of all U. S. railroad bonds, 35% of all utility bonds, 35% of all industrial bonds...
...monsters. Encouraged five years ago by the vast success of Seventh Heaven to believe that simple, sentimental romances of the type which Mary Pickford played in 15 years ago are not yet obsolete, Fox has diligently furnished them. Usually Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are hero & heroine. Their antics delight naive audiences and bewilder supercilious ones. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, although Marian Nixon and Ralph Bellamy are the stars instead of Farrell & Gaynor, is in the tradition of Daddy Long Legs and Delicious. Cinemaddicts who would be unable to enjoy watching Marian Nixon ask a horse a question and then...
Besides his favorite dancing-boys the Maharajah took particular delight in religious speculation. An English missionary, Miss Potter, once camped near his palace, and he went straight out to call on her. While she hustled out chairs, prepared to welcome him he sounded off point blank, "'Miss Potter-where is God?' 'He is everywhere,' replied Miss Potter with dignity. 'But, my dear Maiden,' exclaimed His Highness, planting himself firmly in one of the chairs, 'what good is that...
...monkeys at the Cincinnati Zoo were in a state of great delight last week. They capered all over their little island, jibbering excitedly. Peanuts were coming their way thick & fast. People were flocking nightly to the nearby opera pavilion, though in the spring it had been clearly announced that there could be no Zoo Opera this year (TIME, April...