Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is not a waste of time for a boy to spend a year after leaving preparatory school in such experiment. Either he finds that he likes his work and continues in it or he finds that he does not and comes to college without misgivings. In either case, he...
The outstanding chemical experiment of the year was performed last week at Minneapolis where the American Chemical Society was conducting its 78th annual meeting. Only a few score chemists witnessed the demonstration, and of those very few knew what it was all about.
Practically all the chemists who witnessed the experiment believed that Dr. Bonhoeffer had split the hydrogen atom. Newspapers so reported the event. That was ridiculous. The hydrogen atom, simplest of the 92 elements, has a single proton at its centre and a single electron swinging around that centre. The two...
College for Roman Catholic priests, shouted down the news. Student priests ran to rescue Calvin Petty. Bleriot Cup. Louis Bleriot, early flyer, now head of Bleriot-Aeronautique at Suresnes, France, believes that land planes can attain 750 m.p.h. To excite experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes...
The experiment may or may not prove to be successful in its present untried form; it at least deserves unqualified commendation.