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*A French expedition under Major Marchand declined to obey Lord Kitchener's demand to withdraw from Fashoda on the River Nile. The two forces glared at each other for days, while a heated diplomatic duel was fought between Paris and London. Finally, French Minister Delcasse gave way; war was...
Both the New York Stock Exchange and District Attorney Joab H. Banton have declared their intention of wiping out bucketshops. Yet each has proposed a different cure, and this has been the occasion of rather heated dispute between them. Mr. Banton declares that the only solution to the problem is...
Some time ago, a brilliant novelist coined a convenient catch-phrase in the term "explosive truths". If the present heated controversy centering about the choice of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize Play may be taken as a criterion, Professor William Lyon Phelps, who acted on the original committee of selection, has...
5.) It has the lowest expansion ratio of any solid known. A tube of it one yard long, heated to 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit, increased but 1/50 inch in length. Platinum increases 1/3 inch when subjected to the same heat, and copper 3/5 inch. President S.W. Stratton, of M.I. T...
These examples may give some idea of the range of Professor Bridgman's work, which begins at 3000 atmospheres and goes up to 14,000--the highest ever reached by experiment. At this pressure mercury and hydrogen pass through thick nickel steel as though it were a sieve; and there...