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...Leet, assistant professor of Seismology, has measured velocities of 5.2 miles per second for "push" waves, a form imparting back and forward motion, which were travelling in the msterious upper mantle layer 21 miles below the surface of the earth. This is 1,440 miles per hour faster than any velocities yet recorded for this layer, and cannot be explained in terms of any familiar geological material or present theories about conditions of heat and pressure in the upper mantle layer...
...been used by Dr. Lect to study the New England upper crust in collaberation with the Dominican Observatory, Ottawa, Williams College, Weston College, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By measurements of quake waves of both the "Push" and "Throb" variety, Dr. Lect has determined that the New England top layer consists of nine miles of hard granite...
...with the serene contempt in which all good war pilots are supposed to hold ground defenses, however strong, the first British bombers slanted down through a hole in the cloud layer one night and, crossing Berlin from northwest to south east, dropped high explosives and incendiaries amid an angry inferno of bursting shrapnel and "flaming onions." The raiders hit seven widely separated districts of Greater Berlin, including Gorlitzer Railroad Station in the southeastern industrial and freighting section. Even as civilians were dying that night in London, so died ten Berlin civilians, with 28 injured, by official German counts. On succeeding...
...Varieties of Human Physique (Harper; $4.50), a summary of his work which he published last week, Dr. Sheldon describes and defines his three components. They are called endomorphic, mesomorphic and ectomorphic because the prominent features of each are derived, respectively, from the embryo's endoderm or inner layer (abdominal organs), the mesoderm or middle layer (bones, muscles, connective tissue, heart, blood vessels), and the ectoderm or outer layer (skin, hair, nails, sense organs, nervous system, brain...
...official confession, ships so far along in construction cannot be altered to benefit in full from the antiaircraft lessons taught by World War II. Washington VI nonetheless is far ahead of Washington V: longer (125 ft.); 16-inch armor (instead of tapering from 16 to 14 inches); two layers of deck armor, instead of a single, three-inch layer (the upper one six inches thick, the lower four inches); faster (rated at 28 knots, expected to better that; the last Washington was rated at 21 knots). Probable cost: a whopping...