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...have sent physicists back to their Greek dictionaries. Hydrogen No.1 (most common) is beginning to be called protium, Hydrogen No. 2 deuterium. Hydrogen No. 3 will therefore have to be tritium. Protium's nucleus is the proton, deuterium's the denton, and tritium's (probably) the triton. After them, in Nature's system of elements, comes helium (atomic weight approximately 4). The helium atom's nucleus is the alpha particle which, in the full round of substances, again appears during the disintegration of the heaviest of the 92 elements-uranium, thorium, actinium, radium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Third Hydrogen | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide. For years Guide Courtois was guardian of the Triton Club, exclusive Quebec fish and game preserve, one share of stock in which (necessary for membership) is worth $300. When not guiding U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trappers Three | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Atkinson b. The Winter Song, Bullard Glee Club. 2. The Idolizers, Corey Mandolin Club. 3. The Donkey Laugh, Whitney Banjo Club. 4. Kentucky Babe. Glee Club. 5. Medley, Arr. by Lansing Mandolin Club. 6. Wouldn't It Jar You? Arr by Stratton Banjo Club. 7. The Song of the Triton. Glee Club. 8. Hiawatha, Moreb Mandolin Club. 9. Dixieland, Haines Banjo Club. 10. Fair Harvard, Gilman Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1906 MUSICAL CLUBS CONCERT. | 5/26/1903 | See Source »

...Carpenter '88; "Mulligan Musketeers" (words by Jacob Wendell '91, music by R. W. Atkinson '91), "Lizette," "Is Love a Dream" (words by Owen Hall, music by J. A. Carpenter '97), "Sailing" (by Godfrey Marks), "The Image of the Rose" (composed by G. Reichardt), "The Song of the Triton" (words by F. C. Burnand, arranged from Molloy), "Spinn, Spinn" (Hugo Jungst), "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" (by George Ingraham), "The Watermill" (by J. C. Macy), "The Debutante" (words by R. D. Ware, music by L. S. Thompson), "Bavarian Yodel," "His name is Patrick Brannigan" (by Henry Kennedy), "I'm from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Harvard Song Book. | 12/14/1896 | See Source »

Balliet, who rowed with Yale 'varsity crews, is to join the Triton Boat Club of New York, it is reported, and stroke its eight-oared crew this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/20/1893 | See Source »

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