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...this time saltpetre, carbon, sulphur made up the colorless displays. As various metal salts were discovered they were introduced to make colors in fireworks. Strontium and lithium salts give red: barium and copper, green; other copper salts blue. Last great advance was the discovery that magnesium and aluminum salts impart white brilliance to fireworks...
...debatable question. The plan as instituted at Harvard is intended primarily, indeed even exclusively, if one may judge from the comment published in the CRIMSON, for business students. But surely the professional student has just as great a need for the practical knowledge which only outside work can impart. It was in recognition of this fact that the cooperative courses were designed; but these courses are limited to certain branches, and besides, comparatively few students care to spend in this manner an extra year which might better be used in graduate work, in liberal studies, or even in steady employment...
...poisoned her lover because he was trying to impede her marriage to a moneyed man. This incident has been used by Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon as the basis of a new play in which appears Katharine Cornell. Madeleine Smith was real, and the playwrights have sought to impart a like reality to their heroine. She lives in a sedate, tapestried mansion in Manhattan's Washington Square, has a dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover...
...will continue for two weeks. Classes are being held from 2.30 to 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon and from 8 to 10 o'clock at night in order to accommodate officers who are on night and day shifts. There are seven nationally known instructors this year who will impart knowledge to the officers which they would not ordinarily receive in their regular courses of instruction...
...Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...