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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Robert E. Sherwood used to write movie reviews for Life, his column was pithy, though interspersed with light humor. Of late years, he has turned his hand to writing plays, and in the transition has tempered his with even more finely, while building his plots on material of thinner and thinner texture. "The Queen's Husband," presented at the Plymouth by the American Theatre Society, is another well-received example of the later Sherwood tradition...
...CRIMSON takes pleasure in introducing a new column to its readers, with the purpose of acquainting them with its many distant relatives in the growing family of journalism. It intense to review the magazines with the frankness of any discussion of relatives between friends, but briefly withal, and will point out the best qualities and contents of each, as they appear on the newsstands...
...University Dining Halls, "I have no authority over this matter. See Mr. Endicott."... A. L. Endicott '06, Comptroller, "I deny everything. Please send no more candidates." ... Major C. R. Apted '06, Superintendent of Caretakers, "Break it up boys." ... Eugene Du Bois '33, student, "The statement in your notice column to the effect that the rifle range is already completed is utterly untrue and uncalled for. All members please report this afternoon under the north tower of the Stadium to fill sandbags...
Outside of Philadelphia, the Chicago Tribune, alert to any & all anti-Red propaganda, printed the letter in full in its "Voice of the People" column, followed next day with an editorial of commendation. Other editors divided about equally in consigning the letter to wastebasket or to type...
...does is put a substance to be examined into a small beaker. At the beaker's bottom lies a layer of mercury, the anode of a delicately balanced electrical system. Cathode of the system is a column of mercury which flows by separate drops (two to three seconds apart) into the substance to be analyzed. The current which flows through the system increases steadily by definite increments. Substances react in a regular way to the current. By means of a mirror galvanometer, the polarograph marks a chart when reactions occur. Professor Heyrovsky & colleagues have prepared scores of polarograph charts...