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Vidar Jernberg, Swedish chemical engineer, makes thick and plentiful fogs with a two-foot machine, of value both in warfare and in agriculture. His "smoke buoy", when dropped upon the water, starts producing 35,000 cubic metres of smoke a minute, hiding objects 30 ft. away. The "smoke projector", for land work, generates fog much faster. Several European navies are now using his methods. Their pacific value lies in spreading smoke blankets over orchards, gardens and fields to prevent the ravages of frost. Radiation from the ground is checked...
This afternoon the squads will go through a slight work-out over the Cambridge course as final preparation for the meets Stress this week has been laid on running over level ground and on vaulting the four-foot and the two two-foot hurdles which have been placed on Soldiers Field. There is a possibility that Captain Bemis will be unable...
...Smart of Northwestern in the 440-yard hurdles, the winner being forced to make the fast time of 55 1-5 seconds. Meanix, who holds the world's record of 54 3-5 seconds in this event over three-foot hurdles, was slightly handicapped by the fact that two-foot six-inch timbers were used...
...powerful two-foot reflector is also being mounted, to be used principally in photographing an interesting class of stars known as the Algol-variables...
...match that produced the best golf of the day. Reinhart's score was 78 and Egan's 79. W. C. Chick (H.) defeated J. W. Baker (Pr.), by 1 up in 19 holes; Baker took three putts on the seventeenth green, and on the eighteenth missed a two-foot putt to win the match. H. C. Egan (H.) beat M. McBurney (H.), by 5 up and 4 to play...