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...Future Wars [TIME, March 30]. . . . Had it not been for the type of yellow-belly-now seeking publicity at Princeton, in the U. S. Army during the War in France the War would have been brought to a quicker close. This type of yellow-belly threw a monkey wrench into everything because they didn't have the guts to play ball with Uncle Sam when he needed them. These Princeton yellow-bellies will probably never be called upon to go to war because their papas will see to that. VERNER C. BECK (18 months in France) Ontario, Calif...
...bonds of friendship of the students of our nations. The details are as yet not finally settled, and the society is not going to start work until next term, but then I hope to be able to give you fuller particulars. So far the help of Sir Evelyn Wrench of the All Peoples Association has been obtained, and he has promised to interest the American Ambassador in London in the scheme. If a similar society were to be started in Harvard, cooperation between the two might have valuable results. If any of you are interested and feel that there...
Some 14 years ago big-eyed, bushy-haired Peter Kapitza emerged from Leningrad's Polytechnical Institute, went to England's Cambridge, puttered with radioactivity. It occurred to him that he might learn much about the atom if he could wrench at it with tremendous magnetic forces. His first apparatus was a battery of accumulators short-circuiting through a wire coil, producing a momentary magnetic field of high power. Next he designed a huge dynamo to provide the short-circuiting power. With this the coils blew up. Kapitza stopped that by chilling the coils with liquid helium...
...Westwood, Calif., a 16-year-old girl, who said he had knocked her on the head with a wrench and raped her twice, got Thomas Alton Tully, son of Jim Tully (Jarnegan, Beggars of Life), arrested for the fifth time on charges of criminal assault, sentenced to from one to 50 years in jail...
...other convening steelmen were filled with fear and fight. President William A. Irvin of the U.S. Steel, which controls 40% of total U.S. capacity, grumbled about foreign competition in home markets. President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic flayed the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill as "the outstanding legislative monkey-wrench which threatens to jam the wheels of recovery. . . . The one & only purpose behind it is to clamp the yoke of the closed shop upon free American citizens...