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Last week, Professor Karl T. Compton reported that he had put molecular hydrogen into a tungsten tube, heated it to 2,800 degrees Centigrade, thereby dissociating it into atomic hydrogen, and shot into this a current of electrons from a hot filament similar to those used in a radio tube. The energy of this current was readily reckoned in volts, and as the voltage was increased things began to happen to the hydrogen atoms it encountered. Suddenly they began to emit radiation of a definite wavelength, measurable as a single line in a light spectrum. The hydrogen atoms had been...
Gladstone could not and did not overlook the fact that Chamberlain had "come up from trade," while Spencer Compton Cavendish (by courtesy styled the Marquis of Hartington) was a scion of the nobility. And a comparison of the brain power of those two men would be "odorous...
NUMBER THREE JOY STREET - Appleton ($2.50). A collection of stories and verse by several authors-Eleanor Farjeon, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, A. A. Milne, Compton Mackenzie and others. Handsomely got up with illustrations in color and black and white...
...unquestionably the real thing, with all the power of stone, the illusion of strenuous passion, that live design can give. . . . I've a great deal of sympathy with the people who hate the Epstein sample. Why should not these people have a sanctuary all to themselves? ... If Fay Compton or Gladys Cooper would pose as Rima with a stuffed pigeon on each wrist, the artist who touches up the photosculpture could throw in a few swallows...
...GALLERY-Philip Guedalla-Putnam ($2.50). Wherein the scintillating mind of ex-barrister Guedalla coruscates with a delightful medley of bans mots upon contemporary litterateurs, British politicians and Liberals, Mr. Compton MacKenzie and a few shadows. Each book that Mr. Guedalla writes is better than his last. Eventually he will become a historian of note...