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Hollywood, Calif., October 26--Bernard Vorhaus '25, the University's youngest scenario writer, whose first moving picture, "Sunlight", has met with favorable critical comment, will visit Cambridge soon. Vorhaus entered the University in 1921, and completed his course in three years with honors in English. He was then...
...Brussels. The debauchees of the previous night were asleep. The famed fountains exuded sparkling water in the sunlight as passers-by bought their morning newspapers and hurried to their cafe an lait at nearby restaurants. There was a faint bustle in the air as the capital began to get into its business stride...
...protoplasm under such conditions that they would assume vital properties. Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale cited sulphur-dwelling bacilli as an example of the sort of artificial life chemists might hope to produce first. These bacilli thrive and multiply in a solution of sulphuric acid, needing no sunlight, prime requisite of most other plants. Self-sufficient in an inorganic environment, these bacteria may have been the link between the mineral and vegetable kingdoms...
...heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green ray in the spectroscope. This element is called "coronium" for convenience...
There is the joy of shooting up through the clouds on a grey day and suddenly emerging in unexpurgated sunlight. The rarity of the atmosphere begins to be noticeable above 8,000 feet. Breathing becomes slightly more difficult and one's body feels lighter...