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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More Matter. The physicists are creeping up on the origin of matter. Dr. Robert Andrew Millikan of the California Institute of Technology, pursuing his study of the cosmic ray, has illuminated new chapters in the celestial life of the hydrogen atom. Those infinitely tiny but infinitely active particles not only leap at each other explosively to form helium, but also by special jumps unite to form oxygen and nitrogen. The exact nature of the jump is not yet fully understood, but each different jump shoots off its own private signal, a ray of definite power...
...name "Toc H" has an interesting and rather odd origin. During the War, when it was necessary to signal the name "Talbot", it was found difficult to make it or "Tal" understood "Toc", which has a more definite and sharp sound, was used as the solution of the problem The name has remained, and is that by which the society is known the world over...
...high contracting parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts, of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means...
...disturbance was of a nature indicating a double quake at the point of origin, but the vibrations of the two arriving simultaneously so confused the record that the distance from Cambridge could not be calculated exactly from the single reading...
...suddenly. Intense thirst is followed by acute cramps and collapse about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...