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With an air of "There, that will convince them," Professor Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute last week slapped on his desk a fresh copy of the American Chemical Society's Journal. "Them," referred to everyone who doubted that Professor Allison had discovered Element No. 87, or eka-cesium. in 1930 and Element No. 85, or eka-iodine last April by means of his new magneto-optical machine...
...Them" referred particularly to Professor Jacob Papish of Cornell, who last autumn recognized eka-cesium with the x-ray spectrograph. With an x-ray spectrograph Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois discovered the third last unknown element, No. 61, of the Periodic Table, which he named illinium (TIME, March...
...order element in Honolulu, a leader of which is Walter Francis Dillingham, island-born, polo-playing Harvardman (ex-1902), whose immense wealth comes from sugar & utilities, appointed a new police chief and reorganized the generally inefficient police department. New chief was Charles F. Weeber, formerly of Harrisburg, Pa. Since 1920, when he retired from the Army, Chief Weeber has been Tycoon Dillingham's private secretary...
...subjecting this plot to a merciless synopsis, the Playgoer admits that he has exaggerated the element of horror. This element is sufficiently diluted in the actual showing to make more prominent other merits, such as the careful settings, imaginatively done, and the capable photography and camera-angles. There is a consistent tone to the piece, a tone that was lacking in "Frankenstein," with its weakening comedy interludes. The extravagance and absurdity of the plot is somehow reconciled by the opening scene sin the mountebank's tent, which set the key for shivery theatricality. Mirakle, showman that he is, can heap...
Energies of that vast order are released when in a blazing star a heavy atom of matter sheds protons and electrons and becomes a lighter element...