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Track coach Jaako Mikkola likes Freshman, particularly if they can high jump six feet or run the hundred in ten flat. At the opening winter track meeting this Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Varsity Club, he will attempt to coax as many of them as possible into the Crimson fold. All Varsity candidates are invited to be on hand...
...coax her out of retirement, BBC had spread itself handsomely, and tailored a program exactly to the solid (5 ft. 5 in., 130 Ibs.) Fields measure. The twelve-week series is Gracie's first in Britain, though she has starred in three U.S. radio series. The new show is aired three times a week (once live, twice transcribed) to the largest audience BBC can offer. The actual number of listeners is a secret, for BBC believes that publication of such figures "makes for jealousy between the stars...
...chances, and waited for seven years. Last month, McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, Tex., had a wonderfully "steady" night. Struve trained the 82-inch reflecting telescope on the Companion of Antares. The image of the Companion trembled hardly at all. In a few rare minutes, he was able to coax it separately into a spectrograph and photograph its spectrum under almost ideal conditions without interference from the brilliant red light of nearby Antares...
This detour into pre-atomic technology may not always be necessary. Beta rays (streams of electrons) are nothing but high-voltage, direct current electricity. If a pile could be designed to give chiefly beta rays, it would be comparatively easy to coax them into wires...
...even a loan. Raised in Flint, Mich., he quit school at 17. By selling patent medicine, cigars, insurance and borrowing from friends, he scraped up enough to join a fellow clerk in buying out a carriage factory for $2,000. Through his prodigious energy and salesmanship ("he could coax a bird out of a tree") the company acquired 14 plants by 1904. Durant's "Blue Ribbon" carriages became the Fords of a horse-drawn world...