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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content is interesting in all of the articles, but your personal prejudices do sometimes evidence themselves...
What manner of defense Mr. Darrow would set up for Mrs. Fortescue and her co-defendants remained a speculative secret last week. Undoubtedly he was relying on the probability that the prosecution had no eye-witness to the Kahahawai killing, would thus have to content itself with a circumstantial case. That he would attempt to justify the murder as a matter of Anglo-Saxon honor by bringing the rape of Mrs. Massie into the testimony, bobbed up during the jury-picking. Judge Davis, however, was inclined to rule that Kahahawai's guilt in that assault had not been established...
...headed for defeat, he is turning his attention to feathering a Cabinet nest under some other congenial Democratic president. But the apparent sincerity of his outspoken concern for the success of his party will probably carry even more weight with his former supporters and with those who are now content to follow the teetering Roosevelt bandwagon, only because the New York governor is the one prominent candidate...
...huge organization affords unusual opportunities for constructive criticism; it contains trained men with literary ability who are able to treat intelligently not only educational problems but others of broader scope; and it provides this type of magazine with a class of readers sure to be interested in such a content. The inspiration necessary for the establishment of a forceful University publication Mr. De Voto has lent to the Graduates Magazine during his short term as editor. He passes on to his successor a live, interesting magazine which is fast becoming a real force. The Graduates Magazine would be wise...
...groups of meteorites recently studied appears to be below 3000 million years, which suggests a low age also for the stellar universe. Professor Paneth of Konigsberg has determined the age of a number of meteorites from their relative content of helium and radium; for 24 different iron meteorites he found values ranging from 100 to 2900 million years; for the Pultusk stone meteorites, the fall of which in 1868 has been well observed, he gives a preliminary value of 500 million years, which is probably a minimum value because of possible loss of helium in space and in our museums...