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...Secret of the Imperial Conference, Imperial Headquarters proceeded to proclaim Japan's "immutable policy" to "eradicate Chinese Nationalism" so that the Chinese will no longer hate Japan's imperialistic aims in Asia. To this it added. "Japan's responsibility for peace in East Asia is even heavier than before. . . . The true intention of Japan . . ." is to continue "the policy adopted by the Japanese Government of respecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of China as well as the rights and interests of other powers in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: True Intentions | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...people besieged Pasadena to see the University of California play the University of Alabama. California was bent on spoiling Alabama's record of never having been defeated in the Rose Bowl. In the first quarter Alabama outplayed California. But in the second quarter the pounding of the heavier California line began to tell on Alabama, and California's Vic Bottari hustled around right end for a touchdown from the 3-yd. line. He duplicated the play in the next quarter, and that ended the scoring. California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sputter | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...student board rate will rise accordingly--perhaps to the extent of an extra fifty cents a week, were the wage scale raised, for instance, to eighteen dollars for waitresses. With a relatively insignificant amount of surplus profit to spend freely, Harvard has no other alternative than to throw a heavier burden upon student shoulders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNION IN HARVARD | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

...electrons did conform up to energies of 300,000,000 volts. Above that energy level there appeared to be an unorthodox particle of great penetrating power. If this was an electron, the Bethe-Heitler theory broke down at high energies; if the theory was valid the particle was something heavier than an electron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X-Particle | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Fortheoretical reasons both Drs. Anderson and Street believe that the X-particle is not a part of the primary cosmic radiation, but arises from cosmic ray collisions in the upper air. An important question remained: What is the X-particle's mass? It appeared to be heavier than an electron but lighter than a proton. But this is a wide range, about as wide as between a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X-Particle | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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