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...questionnaire is divided into four parts, of which the first is the longest. In this part the voters will be asked to list their activities (including sports) and the reasons why they did go out for them, or, if not, why they rejected them. The poll will be a non-signature affair, so that such reasons for going out for activities as doing something "which could be listed in the Class Album" are included...
...fertilized only during the twelve-hour period immediately following its emergence from the [ovary]; 3) the fertilizing ability of the sperm cell in the female genital tract is maintained for not more than 24 to 36 hours." From those biological facts and the woman's record of her longest period Dr. Miller marks a calendar by which she and her husband may guide themselves. As an added precaution he advises continence two days before and two days after ovulation, thus allowing for a five-day period of fertility instead of the biological three-day minimum...
...floor, frequently break cables, sometimes hoist them to the surface, cut them with an ax. To stop this Irish interference, the 2,641-ton, Canadian-manned cable ship. Lord Kelvin, put out last week from Manhattan. Aboard was three-quarters of a mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western Union has been developing for the past three years. The steel "plow" weighs ten tons, is ten feet long, four feet wide, three feet high, resembles a gigantic stone boat. Beneath its rear end a keel furrows 16 inches deep in the ocean floor...
...clearly in the role of the nation's No. 1 martyr. In his 21-year fight to prove his innocence, Tom Mooney has thrice emerged from San Quentin to tell his story of the bombing to California courts in San Francisco. Last week, he made his fourth and longest excursion, this time to tell the same story to the California State Assembly...
...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...