Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sec. to break the world record. He had already competed in four events that day; his .best previous time for 1,500 metres was 4 min. 47 sec. In a wildly exciting race, against Belgium's Boulanger, who, though the crowd of 80,000 did not know it, had no chance to beat his total, Morris finished first in 4:33.2. Disgusted with himself, he was walking off the track when officials called him back. An error in computing his earlier points meant that he had set a new world's decathlon record with 7,900 points. Currently...
...what happens when an X-ray photon (unit of radiation) is received in a living cell. The high energy carried on the photon swings the electrons of the cell up to correspondingly high energy levels which represent temperatures of 1,000,000°. This lasts for only some .00001 sec., but large protein molecules may be broken up, carbon dioxide and hydrogen given off, and water molecules in the cell oxidized to hydrogen peroxide. The cell may then sicken and die. If it is a cell in the reproductive germ plasm, a mutation or hereditary change may occur...
Last week, the Cuban Senate rudely impeached President Gomez (see p. 18). Two days later his Sports Festival started off serenely enough under the new Government. With 3,000 spectators squealing joyously. Sprinter Owens ran 100 yards on the cinder track beside the Tropical Stadium football field in 9.9 sec. His opponent, a mediocre racehorse named Julio McCaw started 40 yards behind Owens, gained ground by cutting across a curve onto the football field, finished second...
Marriage contracts are usual in Europe, but are practically always accompanied by religious or civil ceremonies. Lawyer Delson recommends his find for deaf-mutes because such contracts require no words, take but 35 sec. to sign. They should also appeal to Quakers, Mennonites and other sectarians who dislike to swear oaths. Nevertheless Bride McGraw and Groom Mallina did by no means avoid Godliness. Their contract stipulated that it was as good as a religious ceremony, and day after they signed it they repaired, for a short philosophic talk, to the home of famed Columbia Professor John Dewey, who believes...
Finished in Chicago for the time being, Mr. Milton last week went to Washington to explain to the Securities & Exchange Commission about the complicated maze of Equity Corp. Before going into the story of each of 44 companies which have been involved in the investment trust's activities, SEC Counsel David Schenker drew from Mr. Rockefeller's son-in-law the story of how he got into Equity Corp. For $41,000 cash and 19,000 shares of an inactive insurance stock, Mr. Milton and Ellery Huntington Jr. eventually acquired control of Equity, which managed companies with assets...