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...adventure stories are likely to find themselves dazed by it. It begins when a cool Western customer named Tom decides to try his luck gambling. No more imprudent decision was ever reached by a peace-loving citizen, for Tom found himself in the thick of three murders, eight fist fights, nine gun battles, with 28 corpses strewing the scene, not counting Indians...
...light for spectra more efficiently has goaded skygazers for years. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson and California Institute of Technology were putting their money last week on a device called an "image-slicer," invented by Caltech's quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a child's fist, this gadget splits up the blobby image of a star or nebula into a number of thin strips by means of a combination of mirrors which feed each one of the strips through the one-thousandth-inch spectroscope slit. After passing through, these slices of light are recombined into...
...British Admiralty in "protest" at the Munich settlement, although he personally saw Neville Chamberlain off with good wishes (see p. 16), spoke up sharply. Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...
Unable to withstand the shock of returning to more fog and rain in Cambridge after a summer spent crossing the ocean fist one way and then the other, with a visit in foggy and rainy England in between, the 150 pound shell, which had taken part in the Henley Regatta, came to an ignominious end on route 16 some seven miles west of Cambridge...
...First to congratulate him was his rival, Fur Broker John Cobb, another 200-lb. Briton, who was on the sidelines last week-waiting for his inning. John Cobb's car has a detachable aluminum body that weighs only 500 lb., can be dented by a man's fist and is placed over the driver like the cover of a roasting pan. Cooped in his pan, Driver Cobb hopes to go 400 m.p.h...