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Beside the American stood his British assistant, grey-haired, once debonair Edgar Sanders; a Hungarian barmaid (listed as "Baroness" to give her the proper upper-class air), Edina Dory, who had worked as an I.T. & T. switchboard operator; a Hungarian official of I.T. & T., Imre Geiger; and three more Hungarians accused of complicity in the "spy ring...
This week Hangman Olti pronounced sentence: for Bob Vogeler, whose country was not even powerful enough to get him a lawyer, 15 years; for Sanders, 13 years; for Geiger and another Hungarian, death...
Safety Showers. The whole plant, even the lavatories, swarms with watchful Geiger counters. They are usually clicking phlegmatically, but they can roar a sudden warning if anything goes wrong. In each building is a place on the floor marked "shower." A worker who has spilled a dangerous substance on his clothes can dash to the shower and drench himself with life-saving water...
Summary: Harvard Varsity vs. Trinity: Burbank defeated Foster (H), 3-2; Nawn (H) defeated Heppenstall, 3-0; Geiger defeated Bacon (H), 3-1; Plimpton (H) defeated Newton, 3-0; Flagg (H) defeated Wills, 3-1; Hear (H) defeated Buhle, 3-0; arding (H) defeated Tudeman, 3-0; Richardson (H) defeated Drew-Bear, 3-0; Symmes (H) defeated Earling...
With the backing of the National Geographic Society and the help of the Defense Research Board of Canada, Dr. Pomerantz launched high-flying balloons from Churchill on Hudson Bay. At this point of feeble earth magnetism, Geiger counters attached to the balloons found what Dr. Pomerantz was looking for: cosmic rays with only 100 million volts of energy. Such rays would be much too feeble to reach the earth from outer space if they had to break through the magnetic field attributed to the sun. Therefore, Dr. Pomerantz announced last week, the sun must be bare of permanent magnetism...