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...substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times as fast as the fastest electron (electric particle circling an atom's nucleus...
...final curtain tremendous enthusiasm was evinced. The actors were called "20 times" amid deafening applause. The author, said to be the tallest and thinnest man in Sweden, "was forced six times to acknowledge the plaudits of the appreciative audience...
...apparent, for the one large class of men through whom this end can be accomplished, will be most affected by the publication of marks. That class comprises men who, although perfectly able to make an average of B's, are content, as it were, to skate along on the thinnest ice which the Office will allow. Were their marks made public, a sense of pride and the knowledge that many friends know them to be capable of much better work, would combine to make these men exert their best efforts. Such conditions apply to the average undergraduate, and hence there...
...been ingeniously argued that an undergraduate cannot devote sufficient time to more than one paper. This is the thinnest nonsense. A man who has brains enough to make all three papers is probably clever enough to be of advantage to all of them...
...this absorbs so many rays that it presents great obstacles. It has been suggested that an aluminum window be put in the tube and that the photographs be taken with the rays that come through the aluminum, for the reason that the aluminum absorbs hardly any rays while the thinnest glass absorbs an enormous number of them. The objection to the aluminum window is that the atmospheric pressure of 15 pounds to the square inch would break the tube...