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...airplane flight within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole. When all the data was in his hands, he found overwhelming evidence for variation by latitude, ranging up to 20%, concluded that most of the rays were electric corpuscles affected by the varying magnetic pulls of Earth. Dr. Millikan clung to his photons, alleging that the corpuscles were secondary rays knocked out of air atoms by the primary photons...
...vengeance-a supreme act of po- litical courage. With an entire world of sympathy for poor little Ethiopia and the poor big League of Nations pullulating around him, Peasant Laval could almost be seen to dig his toes into the earthy al- ternatives of peace & war as he tenaciously clung to the thesis of The ("Dead") Deal: peace by negotiation now and. since Italy is today the stronger, therefore peace now at Ethiopia's ex- pense. Finally Pierre Laval asked for a vote recording the Chamber of Deputies' confidence in his entire foreign policy, which clearly is based...
Automatically this made Cuba's colorless and cautious Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vinagres Acting President. Next day the electoral College elected him the Republic's sixth President in 28 months. He clung to about the only thing in Cuba's political ferment he could cling to, the date set by Princeton's Dodds for the next regular election of a President of Cuba...
...Indian five took an early lead and clung to it tenaciously. With Thomas and Toan leading the attack, the Green held a steady five point margin over the Crimson. Late in the half Conti's long shot from the corner started a rally that enabled the Indians to lead 22-11 at the end of the period...
...stay home from Princeton to go to a Saturday class at nine. He envied all the lucky brighties, but he clung fast to his duty. The teacher, however, wasn't there at seven minutes after nine. Disgust was mingling with resentment in the young man's soul, when in walked the instructor at quarter past. Said he, "Well, fellows, now that you've all shown up you can all go home. There won't be any class today...