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...Langmuir soon decided, has other limitations. It affects a cloud only while falling through it, and the ice motes it creates must take effect immediately or they will evaporate. Dr. Bernard Vonnegut, another of Langmuir's bright protégés, was assigned the job of finding some sort of permanent, nonvolatile particles that would hang in the air long enough for ice to form on them...
...TIME, Nov. 25). G.E. then discovered that dry ice is not necessary.. A child's popgun shot into a supercooled cloud works almost as well. The air expanding out of the gun starts snowflakes forming. One night not long ago, G.E.'s Dr. Bernard Vonnegut walked out of his front door into a below-freezing fog. He fired his popgun once. For 30 feet the fog turned into snowflakes...
...Alex Vonnegut...
...yard breast stroke--Won by Vonnegut (T); second, S. M. Bessie '36; third, H. E. Jahn '36. Time...
...yard backstroke Harvard: C. N. Breed, Jr. '36, P. McC. Henry, Jr. '36, R. T. Fisher, Jr.; M.I.T.: McConville, Vonnegut...