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...bottle, pinned all his hopes on Nessie's winning the Latta. But somebody else won it. When Nessie got the news she hanged herself in the kitchen. Brodie was left alone in his desolate house, with his old hag of a mother, his pride, that would not bend, broken. What the Greeks called hybris (insolence) had done...
...safe way to play the 17th was to use an iron from the tee and play between two bends of the brook that crossed the fairway. Jurado played safe but he was nervous; his topped ball landed on a tiny island in the first bend of the brook, his third was trapped, and he took a six for the hole. On the long 18th he still had a chance to tie, if his second was on the green, or if he played his second short, got a good chip shot and sank his first putt. Jurado was cautious again...
Then there are standard quarts and bushels, standard tin cans and hotel dishes, machines which weigh an electron, others which weigh bridges. They bend steel girders at the bureau and blow up steel tanks. One device, an interferometer, indicates how far a 40-in. brick wall is deflected by the pressure of one hand. They have an ultramicrometer which measures a movement of one-millionth part of an inch. But it is "too sensitive for any known...
Honored. Knute Kenneth Rockne, Notre Dame University's famed Norwegian-born football coach killed last fortnight in an airplane crash (TIME, April 6); by King Haakon VII of Norway, who sent Olaf Bernts, Norwegian consul in Chicago as his personal representative at the Rockne funeral in South Bend, Ind., and who made known that he would confer posthumous Norwegian knighthood upon Mr. Rockne within six months...
During 1929 and 1930 Coach Rockne's eleven never lost a game, won 19 straight. Few days before his death, Mr. Rockne had accepted a position as sales promotion manager of the Studebaker Corp., whose factory is located at South Bend, Ind., home of Notre Dame and its coach...