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...McClellan, who resides but 100 ft. from the menagerie, heads the protesting property-owners. He caught one of the mon keys in his backyard recently. A woman visitor to the neighborhood found a chimpanzee occupying her parked automobile. Neighbors said the cockatoos were the noisiest. They could not discern which animals smelled worst...
...throwing of the switch by a time interval which must be measured in billionths of a second. Because that infinitesimal measurement is possible and because the time lag is different for every element and every form of every element, it is a delicate analyzer of unknown substances. It can discern one trillionth of a part of a foreign substance in anything presented to its wrenching beam. Last week's triumph of Professor Allison was his ability to state that eka-cesium had six very similar forms or isotopes. No. 87 belongs to the base-forming family of elements which include...
...Connell, Archbishop of Boston, said: "I desire to speak earnestly anent a degenerate form of singing which is called 'crooning.' No true American man would practice this base art. Of course they aren't men. ... If you will listen closely [to crooners' songs] you will discern the basest appeal to sex emotion in the young...
Eight years ago Dr. Gault began pondering the sensitiveness of man's hands & fingers. After experimenting with an ordinary acousticon, he found that it was possible to discern the difference between vowels and consonants. He got a four-year leave of absence from Northwestern so that he could continue experimentations in Washington...
...William D. Eaton founded the Chicago Herald. But the Hearst Herald & Examiner celebrated its Golden Anniversary last week with ten times the Free Press's fanfare. The celebration happily coincided with an All Chicago Jubilee to celebrate the city's political "new era." At times it was difficult to discern where the Herald & Examiner's demonstration stopped and the city's jubilee began; the result was a pleasing impression that all of Chicago was agog over the newspaper's birthday...