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...Waldmohr, a village three miles distant. He charged Stenographer Sittell with "insulting the Realmleader," clapped her into the village jail. When correspondents arrived they found the village in a panic. Nobody would say anything except the policeman. "Now don't go writing any atrocity stories," he begged. "Fräulein Sittell has plenty of food and all possible conveniences. Her dancing around merrily in her cell is the best proof that she is being well treated. No, you can't see her, but undoubtedly she is in good spirits...
About 75 members, from the three upper classes, attended the gathering, and following the election of officers the group discussed activities for the coming year. Fr. Greene of St. Paul's Church will continue to serve as chaplain and adviser for the club, a post he has held for the past three years...
...Millikan had reserved his remarks for an appropriate occasion, the International Conference on Physics. The roster of those assembled was studded with names famed the world over. Present and greeted with stormy applause were quiet, brilliant Jean Frédéric Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot, son-in-law and daughter of the late Marie Sklodowska Curie. A vast and totally unforeseen field of research was opened last year when the Curie-Joliots discovered the phenomenon of artificial radioactivity. The young couple obtained a continued emission of positrons from boron, magnesium and aluminum by bombarding those elements with alpha...
...captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France's No. 1 team of subatomic investigators is a devoted, captainless couple: Irene Curie-Joliot and Jean Frédéric Joliot, daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie...
...Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone. But in one of the Institute's new buildings on the same street Irene, with her brilliant husband Jean Frédéric Joliot, continues to pry into matter's secrets in much the same way Father & Mother Curie did before...