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...Friedrich Bergius of Heidelberg, Germany, runs a ton of soft coal, or even lignite, through heated chambers and squirts hydrogen gas at the oozing tar that runs from the coal, he gets 140 gallons of heavy oil. About one-third of this consists of aromatic hydrocarbons, suitable for "no knock" motor fuel. The rest is gas oil, lubricating oil, fuel...
With such a background of bad feeling the Princeton team is "out to get Harvard". Irritated by its own complex, which is accentuated by the superciliousness of certain Harvard gaucheries, it wants to knock this "superior" person, John Harvard, into the middle of next week. That it can be done the CRIMSON is ready to admit. That it must be done in the way and with the spirit now evident the CRIMSON deplores sincerely...
...perfect transmitter for ultraviolet rays was found by science in fused quartz glass. But fused quartz is too expensive to put in school windows for little boys to knock baseballs through. The new Corning glass, two millimeters thick, is virtually as stable as standard window glass and only slightly more costly...
...usual, the true are all that Yet a solid South votes Democratic, remembering days when "The Birth of a Nation" was in the cradle of the deep beyond, and the negro question remains as cryptic, unsounded as the riddles of the sages. A farm group in the west knock in vain at the doors of public intelligence to find they beat as against wind. The great issues lie on the shelves, gathering dust, while politicians parade pretty toys for the inveterate voters. They know that the intellectuals will be off deciding whether the reactionary or the radical is the best...
...dusty playground of the Clay Public School, Philadelphia, students cheered, exhorted. "Gene Tunney" was fighting "Jack Dempsey," was carrying the fight to the champion. "Come on, Gene!" screamed pupils, "knock him out!" Encouraged, the "challenger" belabored lustily, incautiously. "Dempsey" saw an -opening, swung a haymaker...