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Their candle blew out while an English metallurgist named Hodgson and his son, according to last week's despatches, were poking about the Golconda lead mine at Hopton, Derbyshire. In the blackness they saw a dull greenish glow. It came from a chunk of radioactive rock, no surprise in a lead mine.* The rock assayed $300 worth of radium to the ton, a new "natural resource" for Britain and science...
...took to selling a lard substitute, conducting baking contests. The winner of such a contest in Shreveport became his wife. He hustled through a three-year college course in seven months to jump headlong into state politics-''on the people's side." His campaigns were never dull and usually triumphant. The cities to the south were against him but in the northern reaches of the state he firmly grounded his political influence with the farmers and their...
...bouts at Hemenway Gymnasium last night comprised the finals of the University boxing tournament; they ranged all the way from dull exhibitions of clinching to slashing matches ending in referee's decisions, and completely satisfied the crowd of some 500 or 600 persons who turned out to see the event...
...Radcliffe students are rather an asset, lending a bit of color and life to what would otherwise be a dull atmosphere...
Starting off as a dull match, the one between G. H. Nawn '32 and D. P. Ketcham '32 quickly developed into a regular slugfest. Neither man used much footwork, but both closed in and exchanged heavy body pokes. At the end of the third round Nawn was a mass of red welts, but still unconquered despite the fearful punishment he had taken. The match went to an extra period, where Nawn, rallying valiantly, overwhelmed Ketcham for the victory...