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From star heat may be calculated star ages, star diameters, star compositions. Star heat is undiminished by billions of miles of passage through universal vacancy, but when the radiations enter Earth's heavy atmosphere they are dispersed, feebled and as difficult to detect and measure as a whisper in a hurricane. Star heat is best studied at altitudes where Earth's atmosphere is rare. To rare-aired Mount Wilson, therefore, went Dr. Abbot, where he can introduce starlight reflected from the 100-inch Carnegie Institute sky-reflector into his newest and finest radiometer-an instrument so delicate that...
...experience and "feeling" of the skilled pilot are most evident. Without looking at his instrument board, he can tell by the feel of his plane that he is traveling in a straight line parallel with the ground and is ready to land gracefully. An inexperienced pilot often fails to detect a wind that is causing his plane to drift sideways. This may account for a wrecked landing-gear, a crumpled wing. This is why planes, like pitching ducks, land directly into the wind whenever possible. A perfect landing is when the two wheels and the tail-skid touch the ground...
Sleuths. When, in 1925, Wisconsin ruled that private detectives might not detect without state licenses, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, wounded, cried, "Unconstitutional!" Pinkerton had been planting "shop operatives" in factories to report to employers conditions among employes. Last week the Pinkerton cry was permanently stifled. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Wisconsin...
...Could detect no trace of conscious irony or sarcasm in a remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they...
Will not in this detect a bungler's hand...