Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade...
In Stockholm last week the Nobel Prize award committee announced prizes in Physiology & Medicine for 1938 (deferred from last year) and for 1939. The physiologist honored for 1938 was Professor Corneille Heymans of Belgium, who showed that breathing is affected by chemical changes and pressure variations in the blood acting...
2,000 Tons? Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the jovial University of California physicist who invented the cyclotron (spiral atom-smasher), recently completed a new 220-ton cyclotron, so far the world's biggest, most powerful. Last week he gave a progress report on this monster in operation. With a power...
Last week the monster emerged from its assembly shop for a test run on Chicago streets, found the going difficult. First it got jammed under a viaduct, later broke down twice. The front wheels had to be realigned, the throttles adjusted so that all wheels (each has a separate motor...
An engaging job of muckraking is America's House of Lords. Author Ickes sounds like what he is: a public official who has on occasion been irritated beyond endurance by things he read in the papers. Having said his piece, he concludes: "I feel better about the American press...