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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mysterious radiation "Hess Rays," just as an enthusiastic U. S. scientist later called them "Millikan Rays." Cosmic rays, as almost everyone now knows, bombard Earth continuously from every direction in the sky. No one knew this when the 20th Century opened. About that time it was observed that some sort of radiation from somewhere was constantly ionizing the air in electroscopes. Some theorists thought the source was radioactive material in the ground. If this were so, the radiation should have fallen off markedly at short distances above ground. By carrying instruments up in balloons, Hess, Gockel and Kolhörster...
...books of the October Bible, Shakspere, and authors examinations are to be locked in a vault for a year or two and then thrown away, attention is focused on the chaos that rules the University's blue book policy. Both in general courses and in special examinations of this sort, the student is left entirely to the whim of the instructor as to whether he sees his work again or not. For though some teachers are willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate has too often been forced to look on examinations as ancient history...
...some Oxonians refer to them. But this is hardly fair. The girls of Oxford have really much more than brains and a bicycle: There's always their hockey. And I for one have seen some mighty fine and enthusiastic players. It is true that some seem to find some sort of carry-over from hockey to the dance floor; but a man with a little coaching in following can get on tolerably well and the girl never knows the difference. If that doesn't work I find a definite understanding at the outset as to who will lead which dance...
...rates by 35% to insure that the city's illuminations should blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes of game birds to be slaughtered. Carol graciously returned all these compliments by ordering machine guns for Rumania from the Czech Skoda Works, and with cheers ringing in his ears parted from President Benes with...
...palace. In his narrow knickerbockers and high laced shoes, Artist Matisse frequented at that time the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette, contemplating the dancing cocottes that lame Toulouse-Lautrec had painted so shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around-a-rosy popular at both music halls, would be a suitable subject for the grand staircase of a Moscow bourgeois, and that is what he sent to his patron, reduced to simplest terms of nude figures and primitive colors...