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Tempered glass is made from ordinary plate glass, which is first heated close to the melting point in an electric furnace, then abruptly chilled by blasts of air. The surface, cooling and contracting faster than the inside, becomes a stretched, flexible skin and the inside retains some elasticity because of...
To foster swimming and diving and expressly omitting water polo, a new Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League has been formed, composed of seven eastern colleges including Harvard, and headed by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. The appointment of Bingham as president and of H. Jamison Swarts, Assistant Director of...
He insists he really enjoys testing planes. Only protection he wears in power dives is a regulation safety belt. He never shouts while diving, unconvinced that it relieves the strain. Tall, slightly hunched, with brown hair and eyes, a ready smile, he makes his home in New York with his...
Died. Edward Herbert Thompson, 74, pioneer explorer of Mayan sites in Yucatan; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. U. S. consul from 1885 to 1909, he found Yucatan's long-sought "Hidden City," a high priest's mausoleum, a temple, the "Maya Venus." His most famed exploit...
After the maneuver airmen call a "dog fight," Il Duce's diving, threatening, corner-cutting planes scared the Nazi pilot into a forced landing, seized two German long-range telescopic cameras. While several Milan correspondents vouched for this news, the Dictator's official press bureau blandly announced that...