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...Nazi jail because Nazi strategists dared neither bring him to trial nor chop off his head. Despite all the exiles, all the concentration camps, all the executions, there were still enough undercover followers of Ernst Thalmann left at large in Germany last week to spread a thin layer of anti-Nazi leaflets from Switzerland to the Baltic...
...observe the ionosphere both as a function of time and of frequency, the expedition will take two sets of transmitters with which they hope to gain the desired information. Two 500 watt transmitters, designed to work on four specially assigned frequencies, are equipped to photographically record the ionosphere layer as a function of time, while a variable frequency transmitter, which goes from eight to two megacycles, is also equipped to take pictures of the layer but as a function of frequency...
...endeavor not only to fathom the spectra of the sun's atmosphere and take numerous photographs of the phenomena, but also to take along a group of graduate students under the direction of Harry R. Mimno '28, assistant professor of Physics, to make radio studies of the Kennely-Heavyside layer and its effect upon radio waves...
Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 74, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime assistant to Thomas A. Edison, codiscoverer of the radio-reflecting region of electrified air called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer; the Mascart Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal...
...stinking piece of fish indeed lay beneath the sauce. At home and overseas the nation was seized by a conviction that in the behavior of His Majesty's Government there were elements of treachery, cowardice and stupidity. This was an impression created by the building up of layer on layer of popular impressions...