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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanford, Dean"--such is the way that countless formidable-looking bulletins, memoranda, and communiques from University Hall are signed. No title is so curt, nor so instantaneously effective, and consequently when the eye beholds it, that eye will almost automatically shudder and blink twice. Back of the door, in "University 4," uninvitingly marked "Dean of Harvard College," though, there sits a kindly gentle enough looking man who will spring up at once when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than...
...years and merged into the Italian Line. Last week, the largest of these ships, the sleek two-funneled 51,100-ton Rex, fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly twice as much oil as on an ordinary crossing, push the speed...
...along, must drive his legs rhythmically down and back. He is rarely above or below form, cannot win on pure gameness. If he is fastest by the clock he usually wins. Hence last week the experts figured the favorite Mary Reynolds to win although she had recently been beaten twice. The Grand Circuit's traveling bookmakers openly wrote her odds at 5 to 2, figured her runner-up would be a New Jersey colt named Brown Berry, driven by a 50-year-old Kentuckian named Fred Egan. In the draw for positions, important in trotting, Mary Reynolds got third...
...father was a Congressman. Smedley started his martial career as a 2nd lieutenant. Once with the Marines in Cuba, his greenness soon seasoned into tougher timber; he decided that he liked the life. He saw quite active service in the Philippines, in China, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti. Twice he won the Congressional Medal of Honor-for his part in the fighting at Vera Cruz, in 1914, and for the capture of Fort Riviera (whose existence Haiti's Minister to the U. S., Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because...
...secondary rays are stopped after traveling a few centimetres in lead, whereas cosmic rays can traverse many feet of that metal. Professor Rossi found the showers most frequent in metals of high atomic number, metals in which the atomic nuclei have large cohorts of electrons. Lead (82 electrons) furnished twice as many showers as iron (26 electrons), four times as many as aluminum (13 electrons...