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Pole vault Tie for first between John D. Woodberry and Urban (N), 12 feet, 6 in.; third. Thomas F. Piper, 12 feet; fourth, tie between Albert K. Harcewter. Dixon (MIT), and Dunham...
Finally convinced that the outlook was desperate, the Stewart-Warner management yielded. Last June six new directors were elected, including such potent Chicago names as Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer, American Telephone & Telegraph director, Lawyer Ralph Shaw, shrewd, hard-bitten member of Winston, Strawn & Shaw, Robert J. Dunham, close associate of the late Jonathan Ogden Armour. But because no one relished the idea of having Inventor Zerk tearing his thick black mane at directors' meetings, a temporary coalition was formed to defeat the Zerk slate with one exception. To soothe Mr. Zerk's temper, they made...
...other solar planet except Earth, in the opinion of Dr. Walter Sydney Adams, director of Mt. Wilson Observatory. Mars, most propitious of Earth's neighbors, is not only inhospitably cold and scantily watered, but also almost devoid of oxygen. Some months ago Dr. Adams and Dr. Theodore Dunham Jr. trained spectroscopes on the red planet, computed that it has under 1% as much free oxygen as Earth...
...once on its way here from the sun, again on its reflected journey to the moon, a third time on its trip back to Earth. Light from the moon's bright side, directly reflected from the sun, traverses Earth's atmosphere only once. Drs. Adams & Dunham found that the spectrum of earthshine showed three times as much oxygen as that of the moon's bright light...
...Said Dr. Dunham: "This shows quite definitely that if the atmosphere of a planet should contain oxygen the presence of that gas would be revealed to an outside observer...