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...SERVICE NEWS is beating Pegler, Clapper, and Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...
...effect we must now acquires skirts we are to be mothers. Your broad will consist of numerous orphans placed under your wing by Uncle Sam. He ha picked these muscular, tattooed and wordly kids (anywhere from 18-50) from the far corners of the U.S. They have left the fire side, apron strings, and all feminine sublimity; you are to be their new mother. What sort of a mother will you be? How will you provide...
...special ability of quartz crystals to generate an electric current when placed under stress was first observed by Haüy in 1782 and rediscovered in 1880 by Pierre Curie. It is called "piezoelectric effect" (from the Greek piezein: to press; literally, pressure electricity). Conversely, quartz crystals can translate electrical energy into mechanical movement. When an alternating current is fed through a slice of quartz it vibrates at a definite and unchanging frequency. The thinner the slice, the higher the frequency. It is like a tuning fork which sounds the same note no matter how hard or lightly...
...names at the Globe are much nicer, but the show isn't too much better than the Old Howard. A person called Noma-Ma-Ha-Ja, an Indian Nationalist we suspect, exposes herself judiciously along with the 30 Globettes...
...retired from music to take a flyer as a bit-part actor in legitimate drama. A disastrous venture in New Jersey real estate catapulted him back into Manhattan concert managing. In 1875 Ureli Corelli Hill took an overdose of morphine. Beside his body, police discovered a note. "Ha, ha!" it read, "I go, the sooner the better...