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More than 600 Freshman members of the course competed for the award, a copy of Professor Samuel E. Morison's "Founding of Harvard College". David S. Berkowitz '88, of Boston; Edward T. Ladd '38, of New Haven; Phillip T. Shahan '38, of Clayton, Missouri; and Frank H. Stewart '38, of independence, Iowa...
Heavy Neon. Isotopes are forms of the same element having different atomic weights. Most famed isotope is "heavy hydrogen" for which Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey won last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Gustav Hertz of Berlin's Siemens Engineering Works told how he extracted 98% pure ''heavy neon" (atomic weight 22) from ordinary neon (atomic weight 20). The separation, accomplished with the help of mercury in a long series of connected flasks, was so ingenious that Dr. Hertz's description of it was heartily clapped, and when he had finished...
Promptly at midnight the Pontchartrain's lights went out and the boat vanished in the night. On the hilltop slick-haired, thin-lipped Captain Lawrence L. Clayton of the U. S. Army Signal Corps and a sergeant bent over an apparatus of which the handful of witnesses, mostly newsmen, could make out little except the vague outline of a cylinder and the dim flicker of electric bulbs. Synchronized with the mechanism was an 800,000,000 candlepower Sperry searchlight mounted on a truck a few feet away...
...Captain Clayton straightened up from his fiddling with the device. The sergeant barked: "Light!" Instantly the searchlight bored a narrow, dazzling hole through the darkness over the sea. Three miles away, one mile from where it was last seen, the Pontchartrain gleamed in the centre of the beam...
Another report was that two radio engineers named Rodman and Dumont had helped Captain Clayton develop the ship-finder, using a thermocouple. Thermocouples operate on the physical principle that, if two small strips of dissimilar metals are made to form a closed circuit, minute changes in the temperature of the strips set up minute electrical currents, which may be amplified by vacuum tubes and measured. Astronomers use thermocouples to measure the temperatures of stars trillions of miles away...