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Week of Jan. 1, 2000; Vol. 157, No. 1 From the December 28, 1929, issue YOUTH AND THE SEA "Captain Sylvia," aged 6 weeks, and her mother, Mrs. J.E. Williamson upon the cover of this week's issue look at a strange world full of fishes, corals, sharks, morays, and other denizens of the deep. The youthful scientist, symbolic of science itself and its aspirations, was a member of the Field Museum-Williamson Undersea Expedition to the Bahama Islands, which brought back tons of corals collected after cruising many miles under the sea. SCIENCE STRIDES FORWARD DURING 1929 In the air, under sea, and on the surface of the earth, man's searchings into the mysteries of the universe have progressed during 1929. The earth was circumnavigated by airship for the first time. Airplanes flew in the Antarctic, one of them reaching the South Pole. The depths of the sea yielded new secrets. Telescopes reached farther and more searchingly into the depths of the universe. Less spectacular but perhaps more important to posterity were investigations on life, chemistry, and the constitution of matter conducted in quiet laboratories. | |
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