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...sister ship M-3 to the new spot. Trawls struck an object, lost it. A sound was heard, like tappings, but proved to be the noise of a sweeper. Two flags that had belonged to the M-2 were brought up before the lines parted. The seas grew heavier, slapped against the sides of the searching ships, but below the surface there was no sound. The 48 hours of air and life in the M-2 were up. Sir Bolton bowed his head and signed a telegram. "There is no hope now of saving life." Mrs. Morris received her telegram...
During December Japan bought 1,244 automobiles and trucks against 300 in November. Iron, steel, and gasoline purchases were also heavier. Reports from Japan last week told of depleted lumber stocks (largely imported from the U. S.) and rising steel prices...
...soon as California got the ball, a quick kick put it on Tech's 9-yd. line and Stone broke through to block Tech's kick, fall on the ball for a touchdown. After that Tech's light line managed to hold California's heavier one until just before the end of the half when Rusty Gill and Hank Schaldach pounded Tech back to its own 12-yd. line. In the next quarter, California kicks kept Tech backed up against its own end-zone. In the last half a dozen quick plays ending with a long...
...Bureau of Standards in Washington. Under low pressure Dr. Brickwedde liquefied hydrogen by reducing the temperature. Then he allowed the temperature to rise.' At 437º below zero F. the liquid began to evaporate. Ordinary hydrogen atoms, being lighter, had risen to the top, evaporated first, leaving the heavier isotope in a richer mixture. At Columbia Professor Urey examined the hydrogen with a spectroscope, found lines only faintly visible in ordinary hydrogen, concluded they were caused by the isotope H². He estimated the proportion of H² to plain H was one to 800. In ordinary hydrogen gas it would...
...football world is investigated and professional tactics are found to be the reason, the University of Southern California jails one of its players because he was suspected of divulging plays, and Navy comes out for open proselyting of secondary school athletes. Get players "who average fifteen pounds heavier than the present run of material" says the Annapolis athletic director...