Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week was the death centenary of the man who first understood that electricity flows in currents measurable in pressure units. "Volts" and "voltage" were the work of Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. His compatriot and contemporary, Luigi Galvani of Bologna, observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc...
...attractively illustrated edition of the log of the intrepid Italian traveller with an introduction by John Masefield, together with his no less famous compatriot's account of his own amours and escapades. Handsomely boxed and jacketted, $6.00. Each one sold separately...
...Sweden, where remarkably pure steel is made, the Swedish Steel & Iron Trust took form, a 127,000,000 kroner ($34,000,000) organization. No Swedish steel concern will henceforth compete with a compatriot organizer...
...keep track of the scoring, but these finally agreed that Abe Mitchell (who later confessed that he had paid no attention to the newfangled arrangements but just "played for the pin" as usual) had amassed 172 points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific...
...Caillaux has not the facility with la langue anglaise of his compatriot, M. Briand, who two weeks ago paid so amiable a visit to England concerning the proposed security pact with Germany. But the keenwitted French master of finance doubtless counts himself fully equal to the problem of dealing with Mr. Churchill on the question of France's debt to England...