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...people in Third Act in Venice, readers might have found some ordinary, others downright unlikable. might have decided their story was a highly colored mess. Thanks to Author Thompson's restless skill, however, it emerges from dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste for carrion. In short, Sir Francis was a double-lifer...
...preliminary squadron of nine German battle planes had come thundering from the direction of Berlin to wheel around the spires of Cologne Cathedral and then melt away again into the blue of the East. Not a word would any Rhineland official say to confirm the report that German soldiers were really coming, but since 5 a. m. grapevine rumor had been spreading through Cologne, making blue German eyes sparkle and apple cheeks flush brighter...
...shrinkage of the atoms themselves. The complex atom of cesium shrinks most of all metals. Of 48 metals under high pressure, 39 become better conductors of electricity. Iron grows softer, glass harder. Squeezed water turns solid (''ice") in five different forms, one of which does not melt until heated to nearly 212°F. Under the increased pressures announced last week, two more kinds of ice are formed, one of which can be made hotter than boiling water without melting. Professor Bridgman reasoned that even more fundamental changes might occur in his materials if he could squeeze...
Percy W. Bridgman '04, professor of physics, can now make ice which will not melt until a temperature higher than the boiling point of water is attained...
...Paris the suave Foreign Ministry professed to be anxiously considering messages from the Moroccan Government couched in terms to melt hearts of stone. The simple Moroccans wished to continue their large trade with Italy. Meanwhile the Egyptians were rioting bloodily against the British and at all costs the Moroccans must not rise against the French. In these circumstances, French Premier Pierre Laval indicated last week: that Morocco must and will be given the greatest latitude in nonobservance of sanctions consistent with French "devotion to the League." All this Paris pother about Morocco and its 24-year-old puppet Sultan...