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...winter afternoon three years ago the two lawyers discovered that unused balances of money deposited in Federal Courts disappear into the U. S. Treasury after five years if unclaimed and if the right to the money is not disputed. Realizing that within State boundaries the State is sovereign and that the Federal Government has no escheat powers save in its territories, they probed further, learned that in the custody of the Treasury awaiting disposition was $160,000 in such funds from the District Courts at Philadelphia, Scranton and Pittsburgh...
...Yukon Territory. As soon as British Columbia's Legislature signs on the dotted line, that province with an area of 573,331 sq. mi. will become, next to Quebec, the largest in Canada, more than ten times as big as New York State. From maps of Canada will disappear the colorful Yukon Territory, made famous by the discovery of gold in 1896 and the hairy-chested poems of Robert William Service...
Early radio engineers and psysicists were aware that radio signals could be transmitted over long distances, but from a theoretical point of view they could not understand why this is possible. They saw no reason why this energy omitted from a transmitting station should not disappear into free space and be lost to the cart. To explain this difficulty, Sir Oliver Heaviside in England and Arthur E. Kennelly simultaneously proposed the explanation that radio signals are reflected from an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere and the energy thereby returned to the earth...
...than just a publicity bureau for athletes, if it wishes to compete with Widener Library for the spiritual and financial affection of the student body. Four out of five undergraduates will back Harvard sports to the full, and the traditional "indifference" which has handicapped teams in the past will disappear when students realize that Harvard teams are their teams when the H.A.A. gives every kind of student a voice in determining general athletic questions...
...groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually disappear. The Black Rapids Glacier is a case in point...