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Your Dec. 17 account of the proposal of the name shake for a unit of time equal to one-hundredth microsecond was interesting, but tended to leave the impression that such minute intervals are a very recent phenomenon in physics . . . During the war, in order to avoid using the somewhat revealing word "microsecond" in telephone conversations, it was dubbed the "dollar" in one section of the Manhattan project, so that what is now a shake became a "penny." The "jiffy" has been used for one ten-thousandth of a shake and probably for other short intervals...
...MacLennan. Four years ago, the two scientists set out to compare the "explodability" of kerosene and gasoline vapors. When they first blew up test mixtures of kerosene mist, they discovered that the intricate process of combustion was much slower than they had expected. It took all of one-hundredth of a second for the expanding pressure of the explosion to rise one pound per square inch. That left "bags of time," they decided, to quench an accidental explosion before it could cause any damage...
Harvey Love has drawn a tough assignment in his first season as varsity crew coach--besides the fact that it is the one hundredth anniversary of the Harvard-Yale race, it is also an Olympic year. The Crimson oarsmen will be pointing even more than usual for the four-mile New London Regatta, and then a week and a half later for the Olympic sprint tryouts...
...seen the Crimson defeated on the Charles in more than two years--cheered the victors lustily as the Band played "God Save the King." The winners received a cup from the Union Boat Club which had conceived the idea of the regatta as a celebration of its hundredth anniversary
...mile and three-quarter contest, to be held in connection with the hundredth anniversary celebration of the Union Beat Club, will pit Harvard M.I.T., and B.U. against the English oarsmen. The British squads will race March 24 for the privilege of making the trip to America...