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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, to insure the Japanese against outraging noncombatants, General Ugaki laid out a vast no-man's land- all territory east of an imaginary line from Sian, in Shensi, to Pakhoi, on the Gulf of Tong-king close to French Indo-China -which he asked foreigners to evacuate...
...eighth inning Harvard recovered from its lethargy when Shean, drawing a pass, legged it for third as Johns boosted a two bagger close to the foul line in left field. Lupieh walked, but all three were stranded when Jubitz fauned pinch hitter Bacon and Grondahl, and then forced Hoye to drive out to Loveday at second...
...Same afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., the biggest U. S. land plane ever built, Douglas Aircraft's 32¼-ton, 42-passenger DC-4 had its first trial flight. Day before it had been close to disaster, when one of its massive doughnut tires sprang a leak during ground tests...
Splitting Light. The important work which Robert Williams Wood is now doing is the manufacture of diffraction gratings. A diffraction grating is a plate of glass, metal or metal-on-glass on which a series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl...
...cleanshaven above the nombril . . . in brief: an American." So Nobody naturally spends a good deal of his time laughing. The nice thing about Nobody's laughter, and the first thing most readers will like about Cummings' poetry, is that it carries no offense, even when directed at close relations: my uncle Daniel fought in the civil war band and can play the triangle like the devil...