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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discrepancy between the spectrographic and chemical calculations of the weight of the hydrogen atom suggested that there must be a rare isotope of hydrogen mixed with the abundant common hydrogen found in water and sugar. Such an isotope would behave chemically like hydrogen, but weigh two, perhaps three times as much. Professor Raymond Thayer Birge of the University of California and Professor Donald Howard Menzel of Harvard calculated that one part of heavy hydrogen should appear in 4,500 parts of ordinary hydrogen...
...many people does a fair draw? A Century of Progress collected 22,320,000 paid admissions in its 170 days of operation by comparison with 21,480,000 for Chicago's famed Columbian Exposition (179 days in 1893). To estimate drawing power of the two fairs: weigh the growth of U. S. population from 62,000,000 to 122,000,000 against the relative severity of Depression...
...Paul is found today, he is made aware that he may look forward some day to being subordinate in the Lord's foreign vineyard to a native yellow, brown or black man, for "the day of the missionary 'boss' is past." Thoughtfully must a young Paul weigh the Laymen's Inquiry's words: "The period upon which the missionary enterprise is entering will test the patience, the consecration and the qualities of leadership of the missionaries in the field. Only a high order of administrative statesmanship can guide the missionary movement at this time...
Germany's Dr. H. O. Kneser has suggested that a large part of the absorption in air is due to collisions between oxygen molecules and water vapor molecules. Dr. Knudsen's experiments with air and its two major components, oxygen and nitrogen, weigh heavily in favor of this suggestion. There was no appreciable difference in the decay rates in moist nitrogen and dry nitrogen. But the decay rate in moist air was only one-fifth the rate in moist oxygen, and oxygen is one-fifth...
...sums charged by other landlords. The privileges of House membership, too, justify a certain margin of increase over the rent of an ordinary boarding house room. But the price of rooms is unquestionably a weight on many a mind; no change at present is possible, but the University should weigh carefully the economic needs of the students before arranging a rent scale for the next academic year...