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Less interest, less attention was granted the intervening business. Most members agreed that the election of pretty, plump Miss Emily Lewis, Smith '34, as President was "fixed," agreed on unanimous vote after the ballots had shown a 34-20 majority. No Boer, Miss Lewis thanked the League in the name of her South Africa, took the chair while the delegation orators occupied the rostrum. The gathered company was nonplussed when the first speaker, Yale's and France's Pierre Bori, delivered a stylistically brilliant address in his native tongue, propounding classic bromides about civilization, liberte, securite, and Gallic defense "contre...
Last week plump-cheeked Dr. Zworykin announced that his iconoscope was ready for use as the "eye" of a powerful ultramicroscope. Its field of operation extends on both sides of the visible light spectrum -up to 10,000 angstrom units on the infra-red range, down to 1,000 on the ultra-violet.* This point on the ultraviolet side is 2,000 units lower than in other ultramicroscopes. If organisms never seen by human eye do exist in the filtrable viruses of common colds and infantile paralysis, they might be detected by light of such short wavelength. Light of longer...
...plump, well-fed gentleman in steel-rimmed spectacles set out from Iowa last autumn to sell blood & death to the U. S. Press. With his brief case full of fire, smoke, steel, mud, gore, torn limbs and burnt flesh he visited nearly every State in the Union, leaving behind a trail of agony and chaos. Last week he rode into Louisville, and before he rode out again he had left his mark on the Courier-Journal-50th newspaper to buy his photographs of the World War. Sweeping on through Washington, Wheeling, Erie, New Haven, he paused in Manhattan to contemplate...
Veronica's veil, left His features impressed on it.* Veronica took the veil to Rome, heading a band of Christians. Veronica's Veil is performed by two alternating casts of 150 amateur players, many of whom have played various parts from the beginning. One of the Veronicas, plump Louise Monaco, parish secretary, started out 19 years ago as a child actress. A salesman named Leonard Mathews has been Caiphas the High Priest for twelve years. Tall Paul Mallon, 22, jeweler's clerk, plays Christus. He is the only actor who speaks no lines. Costumed by women...
...colleagues favor] the name diplogen (Greek diploos, double) for heavy hydrogen, and diplon for the nucleus." Last fortnight in the British scientific journal Nature was printed a letter entitled "Chemical Separation of Diplogen from Hydrogen." Showing throughout no sign of recognizing any other nomenclature, it presaged a general British plump for the Rutherford suggestions. Meanwhile Professor Urey and the two men who helped him discover heavy hydrogen had dispatched to Nature a letter with barbs under the bland velvet of its phrasing. The three discoverers stated that they had long ago considered and discarded the name diplogen. Reason: "The compound...