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...favorite games-writing a new Olympic definition for the word "amateur." In its final form, it read: ". . . one whose connection with sport is and has been solely for pleasure . . . and to whom sport is nothing more than recreation without financial gain of any kind, direct or indirect...
...radiation from the surface of the sun is approximately 6,000 degrees centigrade," Menzel and Goldberg pointed out, "But the condition of atoms in the sun's outer atmosphere indicates that temperatures of over 1,000,000 degrees centigrade prevail at some distance from the sun. This and other indirect evidence suggest that there is an unexpectedly large quantity of ultra-violet radiation from the sun's surface...
...Accept in payment any sort of benefit, direct of indirect, which the President may find satisfactory...
...Peterson to college campuses to demonstrate and stir up interest. There are now some 130 college billiard teams (including Cornell, Princeton, Ohio State). The current champion: University of Minnesota. This summer B-B-C will open its first model billiard room in the Midwest. It will have air conditioning, indirect lighting and a swanky soda...
Pulse-beats have been increasing indirect ratio to the boosts in stroke-beats on the Charles lately as the Varsity crew's first regatta looms larger and larger on the weekend horizon. Anticipation is on a unique level because Saturday's race with Princeton and M.I.T. is the crew's only appearance before the home crowd this spring...