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...contrast to most money drives which rely on large donations, the HURI has raised funds from a large pool of Ukrainians on a nickel-and-dime basis. Several years ago, more than 15,000 members of the Ukrainian community raised $1.8 million to endow three University chairs for Ukrainian language, literature and history...
...event that came to be called the "well-known accident," Clinton Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
...Liberty's 100th anniversary party in New York harbor is still a month away, but people who bought U.S. coins minted to commemorate the event are already celebrating. The Liberty coins, which are available in sets containing a $5 gold piece, a silver dollar and a copper-and-nickel half- dollar, were originally put up for sale by the Treasury last October for $175 a set. They were an immediate hit with both Americans and foreign tourists. People bought the coins not only as souvenirs but as gifts for weddings, graduations and birthdays. In two months, the sets were gone...
...will now cost millions to maintain. Perhaps because of that, the suddenly penny- pinching Saudis have been making life miserable for foreign companies accustomed to more opulent treatment. "It's horrible now," says one American contractor in Riyadh. "They don't pay, there's little new business, and they nickel-and-dime you to death with inspections and rules...
...providing meals for upperclass men and women during the week before registration. This policy is a burden that each and every student is forced to bear. It is callous and unnecessary. This suggests to me that either this policy is a mere oversight or that it is a nickel-and-dime scheme that places a cruel strain on many students' limited budgets...