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Last week Columbia University told about its meson beams, a powerful new tool that the physicists are using to explore the atom's sub-basement of mystery. Columbia's monster cyclotron starts with protons (positively charged nuclear particles), and whirls them around in a spiral path in a vacuum chamber 14 ft. in diameter. When they reach the outside spiral, they are moving at 140,000 miles per second (more than, seven-tenths of the speed of light), and carry 385 million electron volts of energy. At the peak of their speed and power, the protons...
This year officials again expect a deficit since the athletics problems still isn't solved. Endowments, they explain, are often nullified by the inflation spiral...
...photographs so far reveal thin spots through which telescopes may soon penetrate clouds of cosmic dust to explore the center of our galaxy. According to Bok, initial evidence indicates that the Milky Way has a spiral shape with the sun located on one of its arms...
...Johnston and his highly movable stabilizers let wages break through the original ceilings of last January. Congress, in turn, when it wrote its control bill, permitted manufacturers and farmers to boost prices to make up for increased labor costs. In last week's decision, Johnston gave the upward spiral another shove. On the basis of the present consumer's price index, all workers may demand an immediate 2% boost...
...sale marks the first change in ownership of the trademark since Textile Tycoons Charles and Abraham Erlanger bought it from its original owners in 1908. The Messrs. Bradley, Voorhees and Day were Manhattan manufacturers of ladies' and gentlemen's undergarments, were well known for their B.V.D. Spiral Bustle ("The only Bustle made that will not Break Down"). But the Erlangers made B.V.D. probably the best-known initial-trademark in the world when they introduced a revolutionary type of one-piece men's "athletic underwear." Later, they brought out two-piece models as well. Loose-fitting and comfortable...