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...picture of the electron as a simple particle of negative electricity-that is, of matter-was not enough. Chicago's Compton (another Nobelman) showed that waves of high-frequency light could behave like particles. In 1924, Prince Louis de Broglie of France enunciated a theory that electrons could manifest themselves as waves...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson. After his graduation, the firm he started with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father, a political exile from Vienna, had emigrated in 1848, Louis Brandeis was both mature and financially secure enough to manifest the social consciousness that has since been the dominant theme of his thoughts and deeds...
...Alfred Landon is the latest Republican President-reject. As such they are the titular leaders of their party. Unfortunately for their party, however, they have taken such bad political beatings that their prestige is badly battered. And to make matters worse, they last week made manifest how much they are at odds...
...announced: "It is not believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted for carriers whenever indicated. Ships from cholera-infected areas are not granted radio pratique.* Through passengers from...
...public spirit which chaaracterized his whole life, but it was a public spirit without the slightest pretension. In spite of a background and business activity that identified him with conservative interests, he was a man of truly liberal spirit, and in no field of his activity was this more manifest than in his devoted service to the University as a member of the Corporation. He gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels of the University he contributed a hard-headed common...