Word: mm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S statement under Education in the March 27 issue, "The eighth consideration, new to non-Nebraskans was 'M-mm,' " occasioned considerably more amazement in the Wampus editorial office than either the earthquake or Professor Dickinson's mathematical capers of 1932. "Mmm" and the contest TIME had reference to were the none too healthy brain-childs of one Charles E. Van Landingham, Wampus editorial staff member and campus news sleuth at the University of Southern California...
...appeared in our January issue. . . . Nebraska's running the identical contest, less the approved credit line for reprint rights, may be explained in that their Awgwan ran both contests in one issue, gave a slightly different interpretation and one less "m" to Van Landingham's "M-m-mm...
...Twice a year I have its Roentgen-picture taken, to avoid surprises. The last time such a picture was taken was on Dec. 3 last. The picture reveals that my heart is 10 mm. longer in one direction and 10 mm. narrower in the other than the hearts of fully normal people of my age, but otherwise it does not show anything out of the common or wonderful...
...their identity as particles of ultramicroscopic size (from 1 to 100 millionths of a millimetre) when dispersed in another medium. Pulverized coal when added to oil will settle out almost immediately. It was known that in an extremely viscous oil coal pulverized as small as 1/10,000 of a mm. would sink with less speed. Also surface energies on the particles would tend to keep the mixture more stable. With coal ground so fine that it would pass through a sieve of 80 meshes to the cm. the sinking would be at a rate of a few centimetres...
President Lebrun, diligent and plodding, has been a respected work horse under such outstanding premiers as MM. Clemenceau and Poincare. Soon after his election to the Senate he served on the League of Nations' mixed commission on armaments. Comfortably obscure, he is the sort of man Frenchmen like to have as President, for in France the President has few powers, many formal duties...