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...Hideki Yukawa had become the first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to University of California Professor William F. Giauque -pronounced Gee-oke-for his studies in the behavior of matter at very low temperatures...
...Oke. In Manhattan, Leon James and Fletcher Rivers, ex-partners in a vaudeville act called Moke & Poke, settled their dispute over rights to the title, went their separate ways with new partners -billed as Coke & Poke and Moke & Doke...
...Crimson grapplers have likewise only lost one match, but it was the Lehigh team that only managed to oke out a 17 1/2 to 12 1/2 victory against Navy. This gives Navy an edge in the encounter this afternoon...
...heats matter, demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down one notch further into the cold. By repetitions of this cycle, Dr. Giauque (pronounced gee-oke) has reached one-tenth of one degree above absolute zero. This is the U. S. cryogenic record. Since no imaginable thermometer could record such cold, it is calculated by the Curie law which gives magnetic susceptibility as a function of temperature...
Died. Frederick G. ("Teddy") Oke, 51, Toronto stockbroker; after a month's illness; in Toronto. A onetime hockey professional, he made a market killing in mining stocks, promoted many a women's sports team, sank millions in the International Hockey League. Ruined by the 1929 crash, he ordered his women's softball team disbanded last autumn when he discovered that the girls were smoking...