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...four-width highways, red dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways. And always as her laugh rang through the twilight or her glance shone as the golden bar of heaven the Vagabond saw some poor wight follow after as Merlin followed the gleam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/10/1934 | See Source »

...Edward Wight Washburn, chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Standards until his recent death, showed how electrolysis could be used to get a fairly high conce tration of heavy water. Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California later devised a series of electrolyses to produce almost pure heavy water. At Princeton, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor made three ounces of heavy water whose density could not be increased by repeated refinements, concluded he had pure deuterium oxide. Meanwhile heavy water's first fabulous cost of $150 per gram (about $37,500 for a glassful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prima Donna No. 2 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Bureau of Standards discovered a heavy hydrogen in liquid hydrogen distilled at 466° below zero Fahrenheit. Its atomic weight was 2.0136. Later Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California following a method devised by the Bureau of Standards' Dr. Edward Wight Washburn, produced 99.5% pure heavy hydrogen. Water containing this heavy hydrogen kills guppy fish, tadpoles, worms. Probably it is poisonous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Third Hydrogen | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

VARSITY GRADUATES England, g. g., Fraude Wemple, r.f.b. r.h.b., Brimo Stent, l.f.b. l.f.b., Clark Morrill, r.h.b. r.h.b., Welcott Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Oley Gummere, l.h.b. l.h.b. Wight Grover, r.o.f. r.o.f., Schumacher Clos, r.i.f. r.i.f., Freeman Manheimer, c.f. c.f, Danielian Stork, l.i.f. l.i.f., Tusey Baxter, l.o.f. l.o.f., Mears

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Men Meet Graduates At 3 O'Clock This Afternoon | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

Graduates: Faude, g.; Brimo, l.f.b.; Clark, r.f.b.; Kellog, l.h.b.; Broadbent, c.h.b.; Hall, r.h.b.; Wight, l.o.f.; Freeman, l.i.f.; Danielian, c.f.; Kelley, r.i.f.; Mears, r.o.f...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM WINS FROM GRADUATE ELEVEN, 3-2 | 11/3/1933 | See Source »

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