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Statistics of the distribution of distances and relative magnitudes in double stars indicate that since their origin the masses of the stars could not decrease appreciably, and that the drop in luminosity of an average star of the dwarf branch cannot exceed half a magnitude since its origin, instead of the expected six magnitudes or more, and the probable value of the drop in luminosity is zero...
...control to the States? The Wets, with no hope of actual victory, purposed by this ballot to put every House member on record on Prohibition, weed out the weaslers for the coming campaign, exhibit the growing Wet strength. Before the counting began, Drys claimed the Wet vote would not exceed 160. Wets predicted they would get at least 180. Final result: 227 Drys voting No; 187 Wets voting...
...that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from the tallest elevator shaft in the Woolworth Building during one of the severest wind storms that have visited New York City this winter, revealed a away of only 5-8 of an inch...
...printed editorial as it appears in a publication must reach the Editorial Contest Editor of the Intercollegian, S. G. Madison Avenue. New York City, before midnight April 20, 1932. Editorials should not exceed 500 words is length and should be confined to either the national, personal, social, or collegiate phase of the problem...
There are richer holding companies than Mitsui Gomel Kaisha but in all the world there is no other enterprise at once so vast and so diverse. Its agencies in foreign lands outnumber the embassies and consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...