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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twice as big as a horse should be the size of Margaret F. Maclntyre, 23, physiology assistant at Goucher College (Baltimore) if only her rate of breathing were considered. The bigger an animal, the slower it breathes. A rat respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to 30 times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times. Miss Maclntyre breathes only 3 to 5 times a minute. In that respect she is phenomenal. Doctors read about her with wonder five years ago when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Only...
...paths are slim for electrons going at high speed, broader for slower moving ones. This is a phenomenon noted in Professor Floyd Karker Richtmyer's physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor...
First Class-fast, luxuriously equipped extra-fare "limiteds." Second Class-standard Pullmans on slower trains. Third Class-day coaches. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission, overlord of railroad management, decided to assay the democracy of first class U. S. transportation. Though nobody had complained of a 40-year practice, the Commission ordered an investigation into the extra fares required for transportation on some carriers' best trains. Section IV of the Transportation Act specifies that through fares must not exceed the aggregate of the intermediate fares between any two points. The I. C. Commissioners suspected that certain roads charged through...
...growth of the school was some-what slower than President Eliot had expected, but he was satisfied with its progress, and President Lowell, who from the beginning had been deeply interested, declared an end to the period of experiment by his act in establishing it as an independent faculty, with an organization like that of the other professional schools of the university. But the steady increase in numbers of students brought new and pressing problems, which, when Dean Donham took over the leadership, had become formidable. The growth of the institution demanded urgently a great expansion in physical and personnel...
...trans-Atlantic liner record, suddenly made speed once more the public's test in judging a liner's smartness, her éclat. If the 60,000-ton Oceanic begun by Princess Mary should appear on the seas the year after next and prove slower than the 50,000-ton Bremen, vexed White Star officials would have on their hands not an asset but a debit. Clearly the Bremen has started an international speed war between all lines. At Belfast last week potent Shipwrights Harland & Wolff understood that Baron Kylsant would demand that they build for the White Star...