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...27th birthday, "that his digestion is weak and, what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) Since 1929 Prince George and Edward of Wales, chums in revelry, have sailed, golfed and danced their way around South America without seasickness, quaffed many a beaker without indigestion and stayed up so late at Fort Belvedere (their base of operations 22 mi. from London) that insomnia is out of the question. Last week, smart Prince George performed one of his rare public acts, set literary London by the ears, stirred up a hornet's nest...
...forenoon or perhaps late at night, in such establishments as Reuben's, the advent of the Harvard Bar to Boylston Street will be an occurrence of the greatest import. To the smaller group whose memory spans the long dry years to the days when one could get a foaming beaker, the timely reappearance of mugs and their slightly impoverished content will bring back innumerable memories...
...steam. The low temperature of the fluid, explained, caused it to evaporate in his mouth. Would any one else like to try the experiment? One Joseph Phillips, a sceptical sophomore, stepped to the platform. Instead of merely holding the liquified gases in his mouth, he raised high the beaker, swallowed at a gulp. In- stantly, he began to gasp, to gag, strangle. He was in grave danger, everyone saw, of being blasted by the expanding vapor. The professor shouted: "Keep your mouth open." Vapor began to issue in immense, frothy clouds from this orifice. Sceptic Phillips recovered...
...first-class process will ever go hungry. Today, patriotism offers yet another inducement. The news of the German dye invasion should send every chemist in the country scurrying to his flasks and crucibles. In that case, it will not be long before we can meet the German beaker to beaker and vanquish them in a fair fight. Not Tariffs but Test-tubes is the permanent answer...
...given off which was of a light blueish-green color. This, Professor Trowbridge explained, was thought by some to be the cathode rays, but the point is still in doubt. No one knows what the rays are. In connection with this the lecturer took up a large slim beaker filled with kerosene, which is generally colorless, but when held near the lighted tube the kerosene was of a light blue color...