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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the conclusions reached by intelligence tests given at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., since...
After a century of intensified research, physicists are coming back to the old hypothesis of William Prout that all matter is made up of one fundamental stuff--hydrogen. The laws of conservation of mass and energy, and the law of limited transmutability of matter, too, are in a state of flux. Calvin Page disregards completely the efforts of such eminent workers as Rutherford, Aston, J. J. Thomson, Soddy, and Millikan, and boldly launches forth upon the exploitation of his formula, phlogistic in its nature, intended to explain all natural phenomena in a "common-sense" way. He is backed...
...skating, 100-yds., paced: Everett McGowan of St. Paul, 4 1/5 sec., in Pittsfield, Mass...
Senator "Magnavox" Johnson of Minnesota traveled to Manhattan speak to a mass meeting against a local bill proposed to purify all literature circulating in New York State. Said he: "It doesn't hurt any one when a man tells the truth, and for that reason I am against the clean books bill. . . . Speaking of attempts at censorship, Senator Heflin of Alabama was recently very much annoyed when those listening to a speech he was making went outside to see an airplane flying above the Capitol. He forthwith proposed a bill making it illegal to fly within 6,000 feet...
...skating for women amateurs, 100-yds., unpaced, from a standing start: Gladys Robinson of Toronto, 10 2/5 sec., in Pittsburgh, Mass...