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...Washington last week Hamilton Watch Co.'s Research Director George Paul Luckey told the Horological Institute about the "time microscope," a device has contrived for making quick tests of a watch's accuracy. At split-second intervals a revolving reflector flashes a light on the watch's balance wheel at the centre of its backward & forward movement. If the balance wheel's speed is the same as the reflector's, the arm looks stationary (stroboscopic effect). Otherwise a double image appears and indicates that the watch must be readjusted. In a one-minute test...
...practices are persisted in, I should feel it my duty as a bishop to banish and drive away from the church such practices as erroneous and contrary to God's word and destructive to the faith as this church has received the same." Newshawks hastily headlined that a split was looming in the Episcopal Church. But churchmen thought not-not in the urbane organization which Cardinal Newman called the Via Media, the Middle Way. The Evanston discussions went placidly on. Bishops Scarlett and Johnson left the floor arm-in-arm. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of Manhattan called...
...have their sensible loopholes. In a case of life-or-death, a Jew may eat anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because the Torah reads, "Thou shalt not seethe...
Chancellor Dollfuss. Christian Socialist (Catholic) leader, needed all the backing he could get. Austrian Nazis were growing stronger each day. Until last week he had the official support of Austria's homegrown Fascists, the Heimwehr. Nearly half the Heimwehr split away last week. published an announcement ''acknowledging without condition or restriction Adolf Hitler as leader of the German nation...
...atomic weight of almost seven (reasoned Dr. Bainbridge in effect). An alpha particle has an atomic weight which may be called four. If they merged during the Curie-Joliot bombardment, their combined weight was almost eleven. If the alpha particle and lithium atom did merge, they at once split into a boron atom and a neutron, whose combined weights totaled infinitesimally more than the combined weights of the lithium atom and alpha particle...