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...Millikan's audience was Dr. Werner Kohlhoerster of Germany, cosmic ray specialist who last year announced from an observation pit in the Alps that he thought the rays emanated, at present, chiefly from the northeastern heavens, where the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda are giving off enormous quantities of energy from spiral (star-forming) nebulae (TIME...
...first things Christ will do upon his return will be to put Satan literally into the bottomless pit, and then do away with all sickness, all airplanes and all wars. For those Christians who are still alive there will be no death...
...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...
...Racer Norman Batten of Brooklyn burst into flames. Batten stood up, like the boy on the burning deck. He steered with his right arm until it was scorched, then with his left, then with his right again-until he brought the car to a stop in front of his pit where the flames were extinguished. If he had leaped to safety when the car first took fire, it might have crashed into the grandstands and killed dozens of spectators...
...other approach to this work must consider the two volumes as a factor themselves in the civilization which the Beards have tried to describe. Here the ground is full of pit-falls, which the Beards themselves have wisely avoided but which their work has made more obvious and less inevitable. There are students of American civilization who see in this country some signs of a growing self-consciousness, who suspect that as the earlier struggle against geographical frontiers produced its efflorescence in what one of these students has not ineptly termed "the golden days", so the present struggle against social...