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...dyne is that amount of force which in one second will give one gram a velocity of one centimetre...
...improvised style of gypsy songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third. Two of her best songs: "Odor of Lilacs," "What a Chorus Sang...
...Highness later refused to deny a sensational story by Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing that the Aga Khan, bursting the bonds of his bought allegiance, privately declared to fellow Indians last week that either St. Gandhi ought to be let out of jail and brought to London or the Conference ought to move to India...
...Scorned by these in turn, two miser able delegates of India's untouchables [lowest class] scuttled to their places. All the Princes and Maharajas were gorgeously pugreed [turbaned], but all except a few were somberly, impressively clad in long ajkans [tightly-buttoned, turtlenecked black frock coats]. Overawed, Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing of the New York Evening Post cabled of the princes...
Soon as news of the discovery spread, people came running with money to buy the mine. One gram of radium sells to-day for from $50,000 to $70,000. A group of Canadian doctors finally succeeded in buying several hundred acres around the discovery. Headed by Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, head of the X-ray department, Toronto General Hospital, and Dr. George William Ross, they organized Ontario Radium Corp. Last year they sent samples of their ore to England. There it was refined, meeting satisfactorily all necessary tests. The doctors found that one ton of their ore yielded...