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...third century B.C., a Greek mathematician named Archimedes jumped from his bath, rushed home naked and dripping, shouting "Eureka, eureka!" He had just discovered an important physical principle. In 1937 A.D., a German-Jewish mathematician named Samuel Isaac Krieger, who was taking a mineral bath near Buffalo, N. Y., suddenly leaped out, rushed naked into the adjoining room, began to scribble figures. He thought he had discovered something too: a solution to the equation given in Fermat's last theorem...
...only one state are all three represented, Michigan. Michigan even goes a step farther by having a Vassar, and completes the story with the following towns (see Rand McNally World Atlas): McBrides, Romeo, Elsie, Eureka, Waltz, Chase, Halfway, Rapid City, Twining, Blissfield, Climax, Liberty, Alaska, Maybee, Union City, Paines, Kawkawlin, Paw Paw, Richville, Cadillac, Lawrence, Princeton, Champion, Battle Creek, Bad Axe, Onaway, and Farwell...
...Michigan and Wisconsin. As in the East, the favorite tree is the luxuriant and fragrant balsam fir, with spruce, still considered the only real Christmas tree in the South, a bad second. Exclusive with Gust Relias are colored Christmas trees, sprayed green or silver at his shipping point, Eureka, Mont...
That such a film should eventually reach the U. S. was a foregone conclusion. Its importer is one Sam Cummins, whose Eureka Productions have released such films as Man of Courage and War Is a Racket. Whether or not he would get it into the country depended last week on what Mrs. Morgenthau, the General Counsel to the Secretary of the Treasury, the General Counsel for the Customs Bureau, and Huntington Cairns, a Baltimore lawyer and critic who is morals arbiter for the Treasury, thought of what they saw at Extase's first private screening. Before she went home...
...Eureka !" cried the Republican Defense League. Blushing fiery red Minister of the Interior Yannopulos and the Chief of Police resigned. Premier Tsaldaris promptly declared the Republican Defense League an illegal organization. Statesman Venizelos remained in Crete, smiling. He has been Premier eight times. The new-scandal of last week will help him stage another comeback...