Word: columbias
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Three senior scientists at Columbia's Lament Geological Observatory wrote that most of carbon 14 is soaked up by the ocean, that Pauling's estimate of the increase of carbon 14 in the atmosphere was 50 times too high. Pauling's figure: 10%; the Columbia figure: .2%. And the remaining radiation "would be considerably less than that received from the luminous-dial wristwatch worn for about two hours a year." Added they: "Exaggerated statements by respected scientists only add to the public's confusion...
Minus a pesky gall bladder, ex-President Herbert Hoover, 83, strode out of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center two weeks after his operation, pronounced himself well and ready for work in another two weeks. Hoover, who was awarded an honorary degree (his 84th) from the State University of New York while in the hospital, had some cheery advice on operations for the elderly: "Go to a good hospital and have it over with. It's not as bad as it used to be. When you get out of a hospital in two weeks...
...weather clears up, and the Columbia and Navy contests are played, the varsity will go into the big match with a 5-0 record. And if the team can upset Yale, it will probably take both the Big Three and Eastern League crowns...
Last spring the Crimson defeated both Navy and Columbia on away courts without dropping a single match. Today and tomorrow, weather permitting, the team will have every opportunity to duplicate last year's results, even without captain Dale Junta, who is resting his injured back for Yale...