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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know the only place for a hockey stick is on the ice? Answer...
When the first answer came, accepting, he thought "one in a million," but when all six came accepting, that was too true to be good. He wrote down to each one saying that plans had been changed, too bad, etc., and received in return a well typed letter signed by all six saying that they understood perfectly...
...current Physical Review Dr. Street undertakes to answer the mass question-approximately, not exactly. He took 1,000 photographs of cosmic ray activity in a "cloud chamber," an apparatus in which water vapor condenses in the path of ionizing particles as droplets of fog which can be photographed. Dr. Street rigged his apparatus so that the condensing value would operate not instantly when an ionizing particle passed through, but one second later. This allowed the fog tracks to spread a little, enabling him to get a better count of the droplets...
...nasal voice that a reporter cannot break a confidence. Yet this was serious business. That morning, while police unavailingly checked reports that the killing was the result of an A. F. of L.C. I. O. feud, Cedric Adams feverishly telephoned the home of his informant. When he got no answer, Prophet Adams, recalling the unsolved Minneapolis murders of weekly Editors Walter Liggett (1935) and Howard Guilford (1934), who had campaigned to expose the Minneapolis underworld, was a badly worried...
WOOLLCOTT'S SECOND READER-Alexan-der Woollcott - Viking ($3). A 1,056-page prose anthology designed for hostesses whose guests ask: ''Have you anything to read?" This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments...