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...irradiation or penetrating bullets of energy, scientists have often shot away from the atom the electrons which spin about the nucleus. But if they were able to wedge apart the stable nucleus, change the number and arrangement of its protons and electrons, they could transmute one element to another, unloosing at the same time tremendous energy. It has been estimated that one million horsepower would be given off for one hour in forming 4 gr. of helium out of hydrogen. If man could make positive and negative charges rush together, annihilate their substance and become transformed into light rays...
Fortunately the "beautiful love romance" brings in its train a series of excellent "shots" of native villages in a frenzy of "juju" madness, fleeting glimpses of horrible tortures, and medicine-men dancing madly to the original Jungle Band. Otherwise the erotic element is not as hot as its geographic position would indicate. The abstraction of the lovely white goddess, Nina (played by Miss Booth) from her Tanganyikan homestead, in the teeth of the united tribes of Africa, is a bit unconvincing. Even the faultless characterization of Trader Horn by Harry Carey, played up by the juvenile lead, fails to bring...
This year the Harvard Liberal Club has confined its activities to a series of excellent speakers and by so doing has attracted a larger element in the University many of whom would have been repelled by its rather sophomoric outbursts of previous years. The Socialist Club has been the organization to which the more actively inclined have gravitated and their attempts in this line have been noted for really constructive intentions, not the usual tearing of hair and frenzied demonstrations of extremists. This division of functions between the two clubs would seem to prophesy a successful future for them both...
...principal objection to the autogiro as it stands today must be considered without thought of the element of safety in the craft. It is the three-fold interlocking item of price, speed, fuel cost. The autogiro flies somewhat slower and at a greater fuel consumption than an ordinary airplane of the same price. However, the designers declare that the possibilities of streamlining and other refinements have barely been touched. Inventor. Chubby, wealthy Juan de la Cierva, 37, is son of a Spanish statesman and lawyer. His father has been Minister of War, Minister of the Interior, last week was appointed...
...limited size of the Lowell affair will act as a favorable element in encouraging the support of the members of the House, while the unusually suitable accommodations for it are clearly superior to those of former Harvard dances. Social functions of this sort distinctly have a place in House life if the System is to carry out the ambitions of its founders...