Word: allison
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Davis Cup, For the first round of the tournament against Canada, at Washington's Chevy Chase Club April 28-30, the Davis Cup Committee last week named the U. S. team: Ellsworth Vines, Jr., Francis Xavier Shields, John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison. George Lott Jr., second to Vines in the U. S. ranking and doubles partner of Van Ryn on last year's team, said that business would prevent him from playing Davis Cup matches this year. Allison replaced him. This year's team will be built around Champion Vines, who has never played tennis abroad...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex.: the Houston Invitation Tennis Tournament, Dealing Jack Hess (8-6, 6-3, 6-2) in the final. The two highest ranking players in the U. S.?Champion Ellsworth Vines and George Lott Jr.?were beaten by obscure players in the second and third rounds...
With an air of "There, that will convince them," Professor Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute last week slapped on his desk a fresh copy of the American Chemical Society's Journal. "Them," referred to everyone who doubted that Professor Allison had discovered Element No. 87, or eka-cesium. in 1930 and Element No. 85, or eka-iodine last April by means of his new magneto-optical machine...
Because Professor Allison's magneto-optical apparatus is his own contrivance, many a scientist doubted his discoveries. A few used similar machines, notably Professor Joseph Llewellyn McGhee of Emory University, Atlanta. Light from an electric spark is polarized by a Nicol prism, then sent through a cell containing carbon disulfide, a second cell containing a water solution of any substance to be tested; lastly through a second analyzing Nicol prism. Each of the two cells is surrounded by a coil of electric wire which becomes an electromagnet. The coils are so wound that the swings of the magnets...
...board of ten editors, who include Dean Ada Louise Comstock of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson of Smith, smart Author John Erskine. popular Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, Editor Will David Howe of Scribners', Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times. Editor-in-chief is William Allison Shimer, 37. onetime philosophy teacher at Ohio State. He is secretary of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and of the Phi Beta Kappa Foundation. Cost of The American Scholar will be met by Phi Beta Kappa. Since little or nothing will be paid for contributions, it is expected...