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...chemical calculations of the weight of the hydrogen atom suggested that there must be a rare isotope of hydrogen mixed with the abundant common hydrogen found in water and sugar. Such an isotope would behave chemically like hydrogen, but weigh two, perhaps three times as much. Professor Raymond Thayer Birge of the University of California and Professor Donald Howard Menzel of Harvard calculated that one part of heavy hydrogen should appear in 4,500 parts of ordinary hydrogen...
...experience is necessary, and men who would like to learn the game way try out for the various teams. All those interested should get in touch with the lacrosse manager, George A. Thayer, Winthrop...
Keeper of the Keys (adapted by Valentine Davies; Sigourney Thayer producer). This vehicle for the late Earl Derr Biggers' famed Detective Charlie Chan largely goes to prove that the wily inspector and his ponderous Chinese proverbs are better off on the screen or between book covers than on the stage. An ex-husband of a leering opera singer assembles her and three of his marital successors in his Lake Tahoe hunting lodge. Actor William Harrigan, a younger, sleeker, slightly more occidental Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party...
...Boston, Massachusetts; Milton, Rogers B. Horgan of Washington, D. C.; Noble & Greenough, Robert A. Little of Bar Harbor, Maine; St. George's, Walter R. Lucas, Jr. of Providence, Rhode Island; St. Mark's, John L. Lyman of Waltham, Massachusetts; St. Paul's, Willard H. Griffin of Manchester, New Hampshire; Thayer, Lee W. Mather of Randolph, Massachusetts...
...managed to have so good a time along with the business of fighting, in which the 95th performed ably if not as spectacularly as Rickenbacker's 94th. The roster of 95 included many a youthful socialite-Seth Low, Sumner Sewall, John Hambleton, Quentin Roosevelt, Sigourney Thayer. In the most trying circumstances they succeeded in maintaining a clublike atmosphere at the squadron bar. Capt. Buckley, a member of the squadron, last year compiled its intimate family lies and friends. Lately he was persuaded to issue it to the public. It is detailed, vivid, gaily dressed with anecdote. Besides many...