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...post jamborees, the whole matter would hardly deserve consideration. Police defense and structural reinforcement of the posts only serve as a challenge to the gothic sensibilities of the besiegers. Why not achieve our object most sublime by coating the posts with sticky flypaper, or more simply by applying a layer of very fresh and adhesive paint immediately before the game? Then, verily, by their coats ye would know them...
Suction slots through which a fan inside the wing sucks air, control the thin stratum of air ("boundary layer") next the upper surface of the wings, increase lift 150% using only 2% of a light airplane's power...
...Each layer last week had to employ a clerk to register bets, a cashier to pay winners, a runner to carry wagers from the clubhouse. To belong to the betting ring was expected to cost about $90 a day. Total bets on the opening day, in which the feature race was the Paumonok Handicap which Sgt. Byrne won at odds of 3-to-1, amounted to $500,000. Estimated revenue to the State at the end of the racing season in New York State...
...world knows by now the top men in President Roosevelt's Brain Trust -George F. Warren, James Harvey Rogers, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mordecai Ezekiel, John Dickinson, Francis B. Sayre, Willard L. Thorp, Isador Lubin, Milburn L. Wilson, William I. Myers. Below this top layer of the Brain Trust, however, are scores & scores of young unknowns in almost every department of the Government. Underlings on the payroll who rarely if ever see their President, they do most of the New Deal spade work for which their superiors in the spotlight get the credit. Some are assistant professors with new economic...
Awarded. To Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 72, Harvard and M. I. T. professor of electrical engineering famed for his pioneer description of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer (ionosphere in the upper atmosphere which presumably reflects radio waves): the Edison Medal, top electrical engineering award; by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in Manhattan...