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...week's end, Mt. Wilson observers left the Naval Observatory in Washington to decide whether late Mercury meant the earth's time was 30 seconds fast. They decided it did not. Reason: both prediction and observation contained too large a margin of possible error. To disappointed laymen who had hoped for 30 extra seconds, it looked as though Mercury was just discrediting astronomers again...
Webb Morse of the Christian Science Monitor: "I favor the Cantabs by a 13 point margin. The Crimson defense is good enough to break up the Yale attack. With good weather, Spreyer should spark Harvard to victory...
...spite of losing first and second place honors to Winthrop, a strong Dudley cross country team outran competition from the other Houses by a large margin in the annual meet held yesterday afternoon. The Commuters captured the title by a high standing in the lower brackets...
...Kansas, Republican Governor Payne Ratner appeared to be defeated in a State that went Republican, with absentee ballots officially deciding Kansas' new Governor. Residential voters gave Governor Ratner 416,480; Democratic Candidate William H. Burke, 418,359. But before that 1,879-vote margin made Mr. Burke Governor-elect, some 16,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted. Kansas politicos guessed they would not change the result...
...sure, it underestimated Roosevelt's strength by over 6%, but it was 13 percentage points closer than the Digest. Dr. Gallup's data last week showed a 52% majority for Roosevelt and 21 States in the President's bag. But he allowed himself a 4% margin of probable error, and day before election he wrote in the newspapers subscribing to his poll that he did not believe the data "justify a prediction of the outcome of this election...