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...plentiful; in the winter when the steady hands return and things tighten up, it may be months before someone in Group II (the best a college man ever achieves) could get a job. Most ship in the Steward's Department, where the money is; the more adventuresome may ship deck; no one ever goes through the engine room, which is hell in summer and on southern runs...
...Schwab continued to row several strokes lower than Columbia and Rutgers, and his boat pulled away for good just after passing under the Harvard bridge. Neck and neck with Rutgers for the whole Henley distance of a mile and five sixteenths, Columbia squeezed into second place by a deck-length in the last few strokes of the race...
...waterless, certainly not a place for any kind of life that is known on earth. But last week Venus got a kind word. Professor John Strong of Johns Hopkins University reported that the Venusian atmosphere has a large amount of water vapor above its sunlit cloud deck...
...telescope above nearly all of the earth's atmosphere. An automatic pointing device locked on the sun and used it as a reference point to focus the telescope on Venus. Then the telescope photographed the spectrum of solar infra-red light reflected from the top of the cloud deck...
Analysis of the spectra showed that above its cloud deck, the Venusian atmosphere has about 9.8 milligrams of water vapor per square centimeter. This is not much, but it is not far from the amount that is believed to exist above a comparable level in the earth's atmosphere...