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...William Bell, of the British Institute of Patentees, has published a list of inventions which the world needs, including glass that will bend, a smooth road surface that will not be slippery in wet weather, unshrinkable flannel, a noiseless airplane, a motor of one pound weight per horsepower, methods of reducing friction, practical ways of utilizing the tides...
...What's Wanted" book are to be published suggestions as to inventions needed by the world, for the guidance and inspiration of future Edisons. Already a terrifying collection has been accumulated, including "practical ways of utilizing the tides", "a process to make fiannel unshrinkable", and "glass that will bend". Although this last commodity has been put on the market before, it has failed to make a place for itself along with "Pyrex" and pop-bottles, and so it is up for election again...
Joie Ray, national amateur champion miler, has been compelled to refuse the Athletic Association's invitation to compete in the open handicap track meet at Soldiers Field on June 9, because of accepting a previous invitation to compete in the Notre Dame meet at South Bend, Indiana, on the same...
...George H. Emerson scholarship and the Anna C. Ames scholarship at the Bussey Institution, the graduate school of applied biology, have been awarded for 1923-24 respectively to Lawrence Has-brouck Snyder of New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., and Horace Wenger Feldman of South Bend, Ind., who are now both first-year students at the Institution. Snyder graduated from Rutgers College in 1922 and Feldman from Purdue University...
...Taurus, Gemini, and Ganis Major; but, if the skies of summer are less brilliant they are not less interesting. High up in the north is the "dipper", the catch figure of Ursa Major chased by the huntsman Bootes. The brightest star of Bootes is Arcturus, found by following the bend of the handle of the "dipper" to the eastward. Arcturus is one of the few stars whose diameter has actually been measured, although, like all "fixed stars", it is so far distant that with no telescope of any size however great can we even hope to see size or shape...