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...Ratify measures adopted ty the Pan-American conference at Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Current affairs Test | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...very new, but you can see that it deals with a pretty important problem. Especially important to Linda Darnell--she's the wife--who doesn't think it's such a good idea to be a wife only during the day-time. That's only normal of course, and Ty Power was an ass not to realize it sooner than he did; but anyway the horse-play that develops around the three-quarters mark isn't half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

...Other inmates: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Grover C. Alexander, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson, John J. McGraw, Morgan Bulk.eley, George Wright, Alexander Cartwright, Henry Chadwick, Cap Anson, A. G. Spalding, Charles Radbourne, Arthur Cummings, Charles Comiskey, Buck Ewing, Eddie Collins, Wee Willie Keeler, George Sisler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortal Gehrig | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Atoms of the same chemical element which have different weights are called isotopes. Isotopes are Chemist Urey's special ty. He won a Nobel Prize for discovering deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen which makes "heavy water" (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Later, one of the Urey crews produced large quantities of heavy nitrogen (TIME, Sept. 20, 1937). Nitrogen is present in all proteins. Heavy nitrogen atoms can be distinguished from the common kind by mass spectrographic means, but in protein reactions they run along with their lighter fellows, and so serve as "tagged atoms" or chemical spies to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Canaries & Ferryboats | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...most numerous positions open to Freshmen exclusively are the jobs as waiters in the Freshman Union. These are given to approximately forty deserving students each year who have made application. The waiters receive twen- ty-one meals a weak in exchange for approximately twenty hours, of work a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Can Earn Part of Expenses | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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