Word: tritons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their chests and clamoring for admission to the ranks of the majors is swelling to boom proportions. For now that basketball has gone over the top and gained acceptance among the small group of major "H" activities, swimming has reared itself up and with the vigor of old Triton himself has clarioned out the same demand. And there is much to be said in favor of raising swimming to the high ranking group...
...leading roles are Lois Hall of the Radcliffe Idlers Club, who takes the part of Anne Hargreaves, and Norton Goodwin '38, who plays Charles Triton. The remainder of the cast follows: Mrs. McFie Isabella Gardiner Gilbert Raymond Paul Killiam, Jr. '37 John Williams John Flower '39 Dr. Paul Duhamel Alfonso Ossorio '38 Gill Mannering Bettina Gray Roger Cole Paul Sturges '37 Peter Morgan John Barnard...
...cast announced yesterday follows: Mrs. McFie Isabella Gardiner Gilbert Raymond Paul Killiam, Jr. '37 John Williams John Flowers '39 Charles Triton Bruce H. Furnald '37 Dr. Paul Duhanel Norton Goodwin '38 Anne Hargreaves Lois Hall Gill Mannering Bettina Grey Roger Cole Paul Sturges '37 Peter Morgan John Barnard...
...School of Classical Studies has been digging on the site. Last season the School's director, Richard Stillwell of Princeton, reported excavation of a building which was evidently the headquarters of a great banking & shipping union. Elaborate mosaic floors were found intact, one depicting a female figure astride a Triton, accompanied by cupids straddling bull-headed marine monsters. Evidently those ancient traders did not rely entirely on their own sagacity, because in the offices was a shrine where the concessionaires might worship...
...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...