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...front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
...funeral, traveled to Nashville for the Speaker's interment. At Nashville he was more than three-quarters of the way to Arkansas, where he opens his speaking tour this week, but lest he be accused of mingling obsequies and politics in one trip, he backtracked 724 mi. to Washington. Not wasted, however, were his 38 hours on the train. In his air-cooled car, with two stenographers, he drafted his speeches for this week. At Washington he spent 30 hours cleaning up odds & ends, then started off again...
...waves. The ethereal wiggles that gird the globe with speech and music are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed the Institute of Radio Engineers that some waves had been detected jogging along with less than half their...
...continued booing that he floored his Syracuse University opponent for a count of nine in the first round. ¶ The 175-lb. bout won by Creighton University's Footballer Carl Vinciquerra, who beat to a pulp the handsome face of plucky, tattooed William Townsend, who junketed 5,000 mi. from his U. S. Army post in Hawaii for the tournament. ¶ The heavyweight championship in which the listless performance of winning Negro Arthur Oliver and losing Negro Willis Johnson again prompted spectators to boo. Unprecedented result was that to Berlin this summer will go a U. S. Olympic boxing...
...Ernest Morgan with ideas even newer. President Morgan split the college's students into two groups, shipped one off for five-or-ten weeks of work in offices or factories while the other studied on the campus. No professional educator but an engineer who helped harness the turbulent Mi ami River after the Dayton flood of 1913, President Morgan was released on leave from Antioch three years ago to serve as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority Last week Antioch's trustees an nounced that their loan of a president to TVA was permanent, that in President Morgan...