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Target for Tonight. In Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, there was a near panic when somebody started a rumor that the planet Saturn had jumped its orbit, was hellbent for Dinkelsbuhl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Price of Peace. The Balkans-except Greece-are already in the widening Soviet orbit. The Russians all but have their hands on Iran's oil, and certainly have their eyes on the pipeline in the Levant states, which last week asked UNO for withdrawal of British and French troops. Russian diplomatic radar is feeling out the Arab League. Turkey is under pressure to let Russia dominate the Dardanelles. Russia's good friend Tito is still clamoring for Trieste on the Adriatic, and Russia herself is clamoring for a one-panel trusteeship in Tripolitania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNO: Great Commoner | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...earth unbalanced from her orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Last week, as election time arrived or approached in the Russian orbit, the Opposition made the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Opposition | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 100 Million Volts | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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