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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Country dwellers who have a superfluity of cold in winter and a dearth of ice in summer can build themselves a year-round refrigerator. Last week North Dakota's State Agricultural College reported its success with such a refrigerator constructed on plans of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture...
...hills and dales, mountains, canyons, plateaus, plains. Many are known-Telegraph Plateau between Newfoundland and Ireland whereupon 14 of 21 North Atlantic cables lie, Fleming Deep (5½ mi. down) off Japan and the Philippines, Merriam Ridge off Chile and Hayes Peak off California (both nearly 2 mi. high). Last week came news of another peak, 1½ mi. high, discovered 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by the nonmagnetic brigantine Carnegie shortly before she exploded in the Samoan Islands (TIME, Dec. 9). Name of the new peak is to be, unless controverted for some politic reason, Ault Peak, after...
Stars beamed down at the hundreds of scientists who milled into Des Moines' Shrine Temple for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. The stars were in the building's domed ceiling, marked there by the resident host of the convention, President Daniel Walter Morehouse of Drake University, 53, famed astronomer, discoverer of the Morehouse comet. There is a story at Drake that when the ceiling was first completed and the lights turned on, Dr. Morehouse scanned the celestial charade, pointed to one bright speck among the thousands and exclaimed: "That...
...probable splashes against a woman's stockings which a moving motor car would make is something which members of the American Mathematical Society who met at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., last week could figure out-given among other factors the depth and viscosity of the puddle, the weight and speed of the car, the shape and inflation of the tire, the position and shape of the legs. They could calculate something harder than that from sufficient data-the whorling paths of cream as it pours into a breakfast cup of coffee, for example. Factors are what the mathematician asks...
...Last summer Judith, a one-act opera in English based on the apocryphal legend of Judith and Holofernes,* the music by Eugene Goossens, the text by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, had its world première at London's Covent Garden (TIME, July 8). Last week Judith was given its first U. S. performance by the enterprising Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Soprano Bianca Saroya was satisfactorily bloodthirsty as Judith. Russian Basso Ivan Steschenko sang sonorously as Holofernes but failed to make intelligible the pompous passages done by Novelist Bennett in the Biblical idiom. British Composer Goossens conducted his music...