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Nebulium. Certain unfamiliar lines in the spectra of far off nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being...
...HOTEL-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press ($2.50). The stagnant monotony of English middle class vacation has crept into this reflection on the malign chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when...
...Book of the Month Club singles out Author Bowen because of her "news of the post-War generation" (it lacks red blood) and because of her exquisite style. The news has been reported before; the style, like the pension-hotel, is afflicted with anemia...
Miller thundered down the 40-yard trail in four and three-fifths seconds, breaking another record, and Captain Bowen of Cornell lengthened the record distance in both the weight events...
...Weed, Chairman, Miss Dorothy Tebbetts; N. H. Barker, Mrs. N. H. Barker; G. W. Bowen, Mrs. G. W. Bowen; F. F. Collier, Jr., Miss Gertrude Bancroft; R. M. Henschen, Miss Margaret Roe; D. A. Holmes, Miss Frances Brown; A. D. MacNutt, Miss Dorothy Warfield; William Sever, Miss Theodoras Smith...