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...expected that the heat from stars of the same color type would be greatest in the same parts of their spectra, but surprising differences were found. Vega and Sirius are both blue-white stars, but the maximum heat of Vega is much farther toward the violet than that of Sirius. Rigel (blue) shows two maxima, one of which is in the infrared rays, invisible to the human eye. The apparatus detects differences of a hundred-millionth of a degree of heat. That is not enough, say the astronomers. It must be sharpened to a thousand-millionth, and many fainter stars...
...appearing. A new cycle of spots is beginning in the solar latitudes farthest from the sun's equator, according to observations by Professor G. H. Peters, of the U. S. Naval Observatory. The number and size of spots will gradually increase for about eleven years, until a maximum is reached, when they will again fall off. Electrical disturbances are commonly associated with sun spot increase...
Football extends for a period of over two months. In that time under the usual present system of secret practice the ordinary undergraduate is able to view his team in actual play exactly eight hours; that is the maximum amount of playing-time in the customary schedule of eight games. If the policy of "football for all" is to be in any way encouraged one of the first steps is to allow all to watch the coaching of this game. Too few spectators today know many of the real underlying principles of football. If for a limited time each...
Chancellor Stresemann, interviewed by loyal Rhinelanders, promised that he would never sign away their inheritance or sell them to the enemy. He also promised them financial assistance to the maximum capacity of the Reich Government. It was also reported, with fairly good foundation, that Herr Stresemann was trying to arrange a plebiscite with a view to creating an autonomous Rhineland State within the Reich...
...smoked incessantly specially made cigars, which produced a maximum of smoke and a minimum of nicotine. He was the only person allowed to smoke in the plant, and refused to work there unless he were permitted...