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King Leopold closed by affirming that Belgium knows she will always find in Britain "that sure support which, joined to our own unshakable determination to defend ourselves, would successfully repel all danger from our soil...
...faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist...
...source of cosmic rays, brought the matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. He said then that supernovae probably cease to exist as ordinary stars; that protons and electrons coalesce on the surface into neutrons which, having no electric charges to repel one another, "rain" down toward the centre, pack sluggishly together, creating a heavy, lifeless "neutron star." With the possible exception of one 19th Century supernova, the supernova reported by Dr. Zwicky last week was the brightest ever studied by modern astronomers. It was ten times brighter than the average supernova, 100 times brighter...
...American Legion members, who were patrolling the streets while the mayor's special officers were still guarding the road to the mill, ran home for their guns when an Associated Press bulletin brought the word of the Pontiac mobilization. Several hundred armed .citizens collected about-midnight downtown to repel the invasion, but fortunately the guns were put away at dawn without being used. The reception those first Pontiac unionists received from the ''shotgun brigade" probably had as much to do with the abandonment of the march to Monroe as Homer Martin's honeyed words, for they...
...Bulletin (circulation, 98-663), are two rear-guard Republican sheets in a Democratic State. Major owners of the two papers are the dignified, prosperous Metcalf brothers, textile tycoons long listed among the big potentates of small Rhode Island. Last week, the Metcalfs suddenly found themselves standing by to repel journalistic boarders...