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Captain L. I. Eagle and Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
...Chaffee G. '11, Associate Professor of Physics at the University, made to a CRIMSON reporter last night, when interviewed concerning the work which is being carried on by the United States Government to determine whether or not electrified sand scattered by airplanes will cause clouds and fog banks to disappear...
...extreme top; when the cloud has a positive charge negatively charged sand particles are scattered at the extreme top; and if the cloud has no charge, it is first charged one way, and then dispersed by attacking it with the opposite charge. The clouds immediately condense and disappear. if is possible, according to Professor Chaffee, for the Government to keep their large cities, landing fields, and harbors free from fogs and dense clouds, by using larger planes, which could scatter electrified sand at the rate of 100 pounds per minute, the maximum amount of sand which the planes now being...
...engaged to a startlingly stern, spectacled young artist (Geoffrey Kerr). Just the week before her wedding, there appears a handsome and extremely affable young gentleman from Holland (Vernon Steele). She cuts dates with her fiancé to motor with this new arrival and then directs the new arrival to disappear. Fifteen minutes before the wedding, he can contain himself no longer and returns. The bridegroom, reasonably and yet quite unreasonably irritated, makes a scene. The bride hurls her wedding bouquet on the floor, swears at him with authentic modern fervor and falls into the Dutchman's arms...
...caused to the body by the mind (neurosis) ; not the conscious mind, for no one is so foolish, but by the unconscious mind. The psychoanalyst's job is, therefore, to bring into the conscious mind those factors which are disturbing the unconscious mind and so cause them to disappear...