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...estimated strength) for 40 hours, did not open until a 22-lb. pull was applied. Another oyster held on against 30 Ib. Several clams stood 25 Ib. before their shells, not their muscles, broke. One oyster withstood a 3-lb. pull for five days before opening one-fiftieth of an inch, for eight days before opening a quarter of an inch (a tight squeeze for even a hungry starfish's stomach...
Before beginning their dietary ordeal, the participants ate an extra quantity of vitamin A in the form of halibut liver oil with their regular meal. During the test, the fare contained lass than a tenth of what is usually considered the minimum vitamin requirement, and only one-fiftieth the amount recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council...
Harvard bids fair to steal the spotlight at next September's Fiftieth Anniversary celebration at the University of Chicago. Five professors here, the largest contingent from any university in the country, are scheduled to receive honorary degrees for their achievements in science and scholarship, it was announced yesterday...
...Parliamentary Secretary to the British Ministry of Home Security Ellen Wilkinson announced last week that since the war began 28,859 people had been killed and 40,165 seriously wounded in Britain as a result of bombings. "The number of soldiers killed in air raids is about one-fiftieth of that total...
...fiftieth anniversary meeting at the Hotel Commander, Saturday, the Harvard Teachers Association heaped praises on Professor Paul H. Hanus for his founding of the organization and his contributions to the advancement of teaching in the past half-century...