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Work & Money. Hard work, however, is the general rule at Cavendish, although the staffers sometimes knock off early in summer to play cricket. The staff numbers some 60 researchers, of whom per-haps ten leave every year for other posts or retirement. These are replaced by bright newcomers, half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur...
Lieut.-Colonel Stewart S. Giffin (West Point, '13), Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., stood trial before a general courtmartial. On and behind a pine table were twelve sabres, twelve senior officers. The court had to consider charges that Colonel Giffin: 1) did "maliciously knock the hat off the head of one Joseph Currao [a trucker], thereby precipitating a drunken brawl ... to the scandal and disgrace of the military service"; 2) did visit a residence at Goshen, N. Y., and, being refused admittance, "did then and there willfully create a shameful disturbance ... by trespassing ... in his stocking feet...
...craftsmen may shoot. With steel crossbows and steel-tipped wooden bolts, the Thierfelders, Dietzes, Dreschers-now butchers, knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded...
...time the President can't knock you out, you're all right!" was "Happy" Chandler's attempt at cheerfulness after Franklin Roosevelt had departed. But that night at Bowling Green, in praising Kentucky's other Senator, Marvel Mills Logan, for standing "square like a rock" on a certain occasion, the President dealt the young Governor a painful backhand blow. Senator Logan explained that on the occasion referred to. "Happy" Chandler had gone to the White House with the proposal that Senator Logan be made a Federal judge so that Chandler could go to the Senate without...
...that every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into line any other company which disregarded his price policy. But open price-fixing was illegal, so Judge Gary would give dinners for all the steelmasters; somehow, when the demitasse came round, everyone knew what to charge for steel. In 1911, when the Government was ready to jump on this arrangement...