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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Nations: Montagu Collet Norman, Governor, Bank of England;* Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President, German Reichsbank;† Nicola Pavoncelli, Chairman, Bank of Italy;** and the presidents of the state banks of the following countries with a large contingent of financiers from each: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland...
Director Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), Nobel Prizeman in physics for 1923 (for isolation and measurement of the electron): "I delivered three lectures on the Terry foundation at Yale University, on 'Evolution in Science and Religion.' I first showed the breaking down of what the 19th Century so confidently regarded as a final interpretation of the physical universe, by 20th Century discoveries-radio activity, the inter-convertability of matter and light, the corpuscular theory of radiant energy, etc. Next I showed that while there is always 'something new under...
...Jungfrau in the Alps. They had dug a pit twelve feet wide and 20 feet deep in the eternal ice of that summit, and lowered into it instruments extremely sensitive to radiant energy. Their procedure closely paralleled experiments conducted during 1923-25 by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), who first buried his instruments at sea level, then flew them far aloft by kites, finally lowering them to a considerable depth in the pure waters of a high-altitude lake.* And their conclusions, announced last week, paralleled Dr. Millikan's: bombarding...
...News of the World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week, puffing and panting, swimmer Norman Leslie Derham of Southend waded ashore at Dover to collect Lord Riddell's money. His time was 13 hrs.: 56 min.-35 min. faster than Miss Ederle, but 171 min. slower than Baker Michel of France. British hardihood was somewhat vindicated...
...Which one of the following is Norman Leslie Derham: a piccolo player, a horse thief, a Siamese twin, a barber, a golf champion, a Juke, a man-in-the-street, a Fiji emperor, or a Channel swimmer...