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...immense importance to biology. Organic substances are rich in hydrogen. Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California, whose huge apparatus produces a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second, finds that on the white blood cells of rats neutrons exert ten times the destructive effect of X rays of equal intensity. As laid down last month in the American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, the biologic neutron problems now confronting science are these...
Tarrytown, X...
Denmark's towering Christian X kings it over two separate realms. The second is a subarctic island covered with glaciers and boiling volcanoes, vast lava beds, gravel deserts and eternal clouds of sand and pumice dust. This is Iceland, whose 115,000 proud citizens are chiefly crowded in the lowlying southwestern corner of their grim island. Iceland won home rule in 1874, independent sovereignty in 1918. To show Icelanders that he takes his job as King of Iceland dead seriously, King Christian learned some Icelandic. Last week, for the first time in six years, King Christian paid Iceland...
...numerals printed in italics below are the correct answers to the 105 questions in the current affairs test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract the number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is above the college average. Do not look at these answers until you have finished your answer sheet...
Robert H. McAleer '36, of Brookline; Leo J. McNulty '36, of Roslindale; David H. Pabst '36, of Oconomowoe, Wisconsin; Lawrason Riggs, III '36, of New York City; David W. Schoonmaker '36, of Ashburnham; Alfred R. Shrigley, Jr. '36, of Hingham; George T. Skinner '36, of North Wales, Pennsylvania; Francis X. Sommer, Jr. '36, of Washington; Charles F. Tillinghast, Jr. ocC., of Providence, Rhode Island; Robert H. Waldinger '36, of Newton Center; Sidney S. Williston '37, of Northampton; and Dana C. Wrightington '36, of Lexington...