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...Rayleigh, 63, is the B. A. A. S. president, and therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge that it has made war horrible, using the now-familiar argument that the deadliest weapons of modern war - e.g., high explosives, airplanes, poison gas - were developed for peaceful purposes...
...embankment, piled four of the five coaches up on each other in a splintered, twisted mass like a smashed accordion. The coaches lay crumpled for hours in a river bed till cranes could be got into the mountains. Most of the injured were expected to die. It was the deadliest train wreck in West Indies' history...
Died, Rev. Dr. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 58, chemist, priest of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Holy Cross, onetime dean of Notre Dame University's College of Science; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. His researches gave mankind Lewisite (deadliest of war gases) and chloroprene (artificial rubber...
...about one of their most spectacular conversions to date. A textile manufacturer of Rotterdam named Dr. Roessingh, said they, lost his fortune when England went off the gold standard. Turning his talents to invention, he produced an incendiary bomb which military experts declared one of the world's deadliest. He war offered $140,000 for the formula. In Switzerland he attended a Group house party, was "changed." God, said he, and last week the Manhattan Groupers, had guided him to destroy the plans for the incendiary bomb...
...other respects, too, the new Premier's policy was un-Rooseveltian, but his enemies seemed to think the deadliest argument they could raise against him among thinking Belgians was to harp on the Professor's alleged "admiration" for the U. S. President...