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...should top 13 feet; Charley Oldfather, lanky Sophomore who will run the 1000; Gene Clark, who last year covered the mile stretch in 4.25; Pen Tuttle, whose entrance in the two mile run is doubtful after an illness earlier this week; and Bob Partlow, Sophomore broad and high jump flash, who does around 22 feet, 6 inches in the former event, and should top 6 feet, 2 inches in the latter tonight...
...physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
...Gammons, Senior sprinter who was out most of last year with a leg injury, and Don Donahue, Sophomore hurdle flash, are the only individual Harvard entrants. Gammons will compete in the handicap dash and Donahue in the 60 yard high hurdles...
...duration of the flash can be timed approximately by noting the amount of blur (equal to the distance traveled during exposure) on the bullet. If the bullet travels at 1,000 ft. per sec. and the blur amounts to one-thousandth of a foot, the time interval is one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished...
...their flash, they place a spark gap close to the gun's muzzle so that the bullet passes just below the electrodes. The hot gases and burning powder which follow the bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...