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Crawling around on the surface of the earth, burrowing underground, seem absurd occupations for creatures that have learned to fly. Soon men will move their houses and traffic into the upper air entirely. So predicted one Frederick Kiesler, young Viennese architect exhibiting at the Decorative Arts Exposition in Paris, last week. Kiesler had invented nothing, discovered nothing; but his artist-dream seemed hardly less logical and likely than did the skyscraper, the ocean-crossing dirigible, the hovering helicopter, 25 years ago. In the Kiesler dream, enormous steel towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air Cities | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...anything you like." The top two layers of the cake were removed and Prince, seizing a knife, plunged it up to the hilt into the cake. To his horror and to the amusement of the guests he found that he could neither cut the cake nor move the knife. The cake was fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

Premier Paul Painlevé opened debate by stating that France must present a solid front in Morocco. He said that the Government could not take the initiative in negotiating peace, because such a move would be construed by the enemy as weakness. He then read from the Communist newspaper L'Humanité an article. "Treason" yelled the Right Deputies. "Be calm," rejoined the Premier, and continued reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Moroccan War: Jul. 6, 1925 | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...accord was negotiated by Foreign Minister Count Skryzynski, who is shortly coming to the U. S., and Minister of Education Professor Stanislaw Grabski, acting for the Government. Deputies Dr. Thon and M. Reich represented the Jewish cartel in the Chamber of Deputies. Most of the credit for the move, which was thought exceedingly clever in Warsaw, was given to Count Skryzynski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Accord 'with Jews | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle was the same as Flettner's, however: the Magnus principle, that wind passing over any surface creates suction on that surface, greatest on any part of the surface that does not move with the wind. Thus, the forward surface of a rotorship's cylinder being made to move into the wind - i. e., clockwise into a starboard wind, counterclockwise to a larboard jwind-suction is strongest on that forward surface and the ship is drawn ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rotoring | 7/6/1925 | See Source »