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Lead is one of seventeen elements which Dr. Nier has studied, beginning a comprehensive program of research which will eventually put every one of the ninety-odd known fundamental substances through his spectrometer...
Harvard was hazard put to beat Dartmouth, but behind the steady pitching of end Ingalls and a good relief job by Tom Healey, the Cantabs did-in a game of twenty-runs, eleven errors, thirteen stolen bases and twenty-four hits, of which Harvard made thirteen for seventeen bases. And when hither to victoryless Pennsylvania rose up and smacked Yale, 5 to 4, in eleven innings, first extra-frame contest in the league this season, the Cantab road to the 1938 title was made a little easier...
Robbery and looting also flourished in Nanking for many weeks. The number of Chinese executed, not killed in battle, totals by the most conservative Nanking estimates 20,000. Excerpt from a Nanking letter written at the worst period: "One [Chinese] boy of seventeen came in with the tale of about 10,000 Chinese men between the ages of 15 and 30 who were led out of the city on the 14th [of January] to the river bank near the ferry wharf. There the Japanese opened up on them with field guns, hand grenades and machine guns. Most of them were...
...DeSilva, head of driver training in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research, having supervised scientific driver tests on several control groups of 500 men apiece, reported yesterday that a 90 percent reduction in the accidents of his subjects had been shown after exhaustive clinic tests had been conducted in seventeen states...
...Diego's Ryan School of Aeronautics, which last week surveyed its 15 years' activity. Ryan's students come mostly from farms and small towns. Though the average age of enrollment is 21, each fresh batch includes a few middle-aged executives, bankers, retired Army & Navy officers. Seventeen instructors teach ten full courses each year, turn out master navigators for $100; radio engineers, $250; master mechanics, $495; private and limited commercial pilots, $545 to $795; commercial pilots, $2,285; master pilots, $3,275. The two-year aeronautical engineering course costs $1,275. Most parents help with fees, though...