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...child of cinema chance, whom Barrie picked for the part from a photograph, will be the Peter the present and succeeding generations of U. S. childhood will cherish. From the greatest cavern of the city auditorium to the stuffy second-floor hall of the farm village Miss Bronson will scatter her gospel. She will scatter it through the medium of an uncannily adapted personality blended into a great picture that is at once beautiful, wise and faithful to its great tradition...
...qualified by the symbolic significance of a picture bequeathed by a dying Forsyte. It was a Chinese work, depicting a "large whitish sidelong monkey, holding the rind of a squeezed fruit in its outstretched paw." The picture is commented on as a perfect allegory. "Eat the fruits of life, scatter the rinds, and get copped doing it," says one of its observers; ... a monkey's eyes are the human tragedy incarnate...
...colloidal suspension in gases and should be governed by the same general laws that prevail in colloidal action in liquids and solids. The sand tanks on the airplanes are flied with 120 mesh silica sand. When a cloud in found to have a negative charge positively charged particles are scattered at the extreme top; when the cloud has a positive charge negatively charged sand particles are scattered at the extreme top; and if the cloud has no charge, it is first charged one way, and then dispersed by attacking it with the opposite charge. The clouds immediately condense and disappear...
Unless something energetic is done to stimulate interest in voting, the presidential election of 1940 will be decided by the candidates and their families. The candidate who has the most sons and daughters of voting age, if he has been wise enough to scatter them among the several states, will be returned victorious...
...other hand, Princeton now ranks as first choice with the world at large following their two-to-one win over the Crimson team in the Palmer Stadium last Saturday. Koene Fitzpatrick has one of the outstanding hurdlers of the year in Scatter good. It has a tested sprinter in McKim. It has a quarter miler of known ability in Croft; a 1923 point scorer in the half mile in conger. Miler Betts scored in the indoor intercollegiate and may pick up a point or two at the Harvard track the last two days in May. But the real Tiger strength...