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...reason for this political kaleidoscope in the Balkans is the unstable internation structure of Western Europe. Prior to the War the alliance system maintained a rigid balance of power and alignments and commitments were definite and static, whereas today the existence of large intangible factors like Russia and Italy and the general untrustworthiness of alliances leaves the diplomatic arrangements in a state of flux. The situation is analagous to that in Europe just before 1870, before the ententes had been solidified and policy definitely formulated. The unrest in the Balkans is merely the reflection of this greater uncertainly...
...powerfully at five times the horizon. They register beyond mountains. Whether they bend over the mountain tops or go right through the mountains, he last week declared he did not know. Added he: "One definite fact about microwaves is that these waves are not susceptible in the slightest to static. I have tried them in thunderstorms where the lightning flashes were very close to the instruments, and there was no effect. This one thing may easily revolutionize the whole of wireless telegraphy and radio...
...Hunting and Fishing, claims credit for inventing skeet, in 1925. But as early as 1910 the late C. E. Davies and other Ballard Vale, Mass, gunners, Editor Foster among them, had hit on its basic idea. Ordinary trapshooting, with the gunner firing always from the same position, seemed too static to them. They wanted something more like real hunting. On the grounds of the Glen Rock Kennels they traced a great circle, set up a trap outside it, then moved around the circle potting the flying targets from all angles...
...your exhibit at the Fair: you present a paradox. Your coined phrase, "The March of Time," connotes an irresistible moving force. And yet your exhibit is practically the only static thing, at the Exposition. Expected, after viewing complicated manoeuvers of spectacular science, were, at least, a handful of clocks, or perhaps a gigantic hourglass. Thanks to a far-seeing director, no mechanical movement is in evidence. Even the visitors to the building are restricted in activity, and are content to plop their beer-saturated bodies into the chairs, and curtail the movement of their gum-chewing jaws...
After studying the hiss for a year, Researcher Jansky determined that it was the effect of a 14.6-metre wave at a frequency of about 20 million cycles a second. If. like thunderstorms and street cars, the source of the static is terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays...