Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson-Shimizu apparatus in a dark room, where may be seen alpha particles flying off from atoms of radium at 20,000 miles a second...
...York delegation, which is solidly backing Governor Smith, and the Underwood, Ralston, and Richie Clubs, will be potent factors in the fight to secure the nomination. Half a dozen other candidates will be named, and unless two of the big groups combine to prevent a deadlock, a "dark horse" may well be chosen. As all members of the University will be eligible to vote, however, it will be difficult to make any prediction. It is evident that the unit rule will assure a hot contest in each of the delegations, and the two-thirds rule will make certain a real...
...known. A new member has now joined the group--Black, according to Professor P. W. Bridgman '04, Professor of Physics in the University. Phosphorus means "light- bearer" and most of us have seen the glow which the old-fashioned "all-day choker" matches gave out when scratched in the dark. This pale glow is due to white phosphorus used in making the head of the match so that it will strike easily and anywhere--from the thumb nail to the trouser...
Unfortunately the same chemical activity that makes white phosphorus glow in the dark also makes it poison the workmen in the factories and occasionally kill a mouse or an inquiring baby, so that matches of this sort were practically taxed out of existence by Federal law some years...
...Business School buildings will be built of dark red brick with white trim, and cornices and gables similar to the original Harvard buildings, of which the most, famous is Massachusetts Hall. They will, of course, be of first-class fire proof construction which, unfortunately, many of the older buildings are not, as the recent fire in the oldest of them has proved...