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...volume is a tribute to the industry and devotion of its author. It is not, however, to be read by the running reader, even if he is a Harvard man interested, a little more than mildly but not intensely, in the history of a school which annually contributes about one-tenth of the Freshmen Class. Even the Latin School graduate, to whom much that is here will be familiar, will hardly summon up a remembrance of things past from his school-days, which now glow with all the romance natural to retrospection, for the book is learned and scholarly...
...Paris' Institut du Radium Irène Curie-Joliot and Jean Frederic Joliot were shooting alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) at the lightweight element beryllium. Strange rays hopped out of the beryllium. Fed into paraffin, the rays knocked out protons (hydrogen nuclei) at dizzy speeds of one-tenth the velocity of light. What were the strange rays...
Said Dr. James W. Schade, director of Goodrich research: "The cost per mile of automobile tires is today one-tenth what it was before the scientists tackled the job of improving the rubber. Formerly the manufacturer was taking a chance in guaranteeing 3,000 miles per tire. Today the customer is dissatisfied if he does not get more than 15,000 miles. Meantime the weight has been reduced...
...Sure. For about one-tenth of what it's worth. That would still leave her penniless. I've been trying to sell real estate for three years. There aren't any buyers. We had to borrow $400 to live on one year...
Having set up his detector, Dr. Haggard nipped a clove of garlic, chewed and swallowed one-twentieth of an ounce. He waited five minutes, took the glass tube in his mouth, exhaled one-tenth pint of air. Then he stuck his tongue into the tube to cork it, took a breath, exhaled again into the apparatus. This procedure he repeated until the gas meter indicated that he had breathed and exhaled five quarts of air. Of the one-twentieth of an ounce of garlic which Dr. Haggard had chewed and swallowed, every quart of air he exhaled carried away only...