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...Wesley Ramey obscure Grand Rapids lightweight: a fight with Champion Tony Canzoneri, who lost eight of the ten rounds, ended with a bruised face and bad cuts over both eyes, kept his title only because he had insisted that Ramey enter the ring weighing more than the light-weight limit of 135 lb.; in Grand Rapids...
...particle of positive electricity no heavier than the particle of negative electricity called the electron. Protons, heretofore considered the smallest unit of positive electricity, weigh 1,850 times as much as electrons. Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac long ago declared that mathematical necessities require the existence of light-weight protons. Last year Caltech's Carl David Anderson noticed some ion tracks which implied impacts from Theorist Dirac's light protons. Before the Royal Society last fortnight, Dr. P. M. S. Blackett, 35, tall, pale member of Lord Rutherford's platoon of physicists who work...
...Hines '34, and M. J. A. Adlis '32 are the three men chosen, and since the trials come during the spring vacation, there is little doubt that they will obtain official consent to participate in the bouts. Ketcham, this year's captain, has an enviable record as light-weight in college boxing, and this year has scored two knockouts out of four bouts. Adlis has been on the team for two years, and Hines was on the Freshman team last year, winning all his houts as well as the University middleweight championship...
...chlorine, bromine, and iodine?alabamine, after the State whose Polytechnic Institute at Auburn he has headed for ten years. As scientific tender for this request, he last week reported that he had concentrated the relatively vast amount of 1/400,000th of a gram of alabamine in combination with lithium, light-weight brother of fugitive virginium. The pinch of new compound may well be termed a second cousin of common kitchen salt...
...similar jolt of energy would bolt from a light-weight atom at the instant it acquired energy by merging with another light atom or by accumulating raw energy from circumambient space...