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...wrist and would not, in all likelihood, have attempted to penetrate the Polar Basin contrary to his announced plan. "Sandy" Smith, chief of the overland party of the expedition, having reached the seacoast on his way to Barrow, flashed word that Eskimos at Thetis Island, 100 mi. southeast of Barrow had seen the Alaskan pass over, presumably on its most recent trip...
...poet himself has been lying since 1895 amid unpretentious surroundings in a Chicago cemetery, but within the fortnight it was announced that the Episcopal church of Kenilworth, 111. (village on Lake Michigan, 16 mi. north of Chicago, where lived William C. Englard Jr., a grandson of Eugene Field), is to have a memorial window and a "poet's corner"; that the poet's body will be moved there, together with personal mementos saved by his widow in the hope that their home would be preserved as a memorial...
...elementary, but what Science must argue out with Dr. Einstein is whether or. not gravity is an instantaneous thing, operating at infinite speed. He says not. One proposition of Relativity is that the pull of a body's gravity travels at the speed of light-about 180,300 mi. per sec. Specifically therefore, the moon's gravity pull is felt on earth one and a third seconds after the moon has passed its zenith; the sun's gravity, 8 seconds after high noon...
...exception was the Chicago banker, Mr. F. H. Rawson of the Union Trust Co. He was there to meet MacMillan's cabin boy. He chartered a small steamer, took aboard other impatient ones and was waiting on the pier at Monhegan Island (30 mi. up the coast) when, trailing the Peary by a few hours, the Bowdoin, Macmillan at the wheel, skimmed around Lobster Cove Point and rattled out her anchor chains in Deadman's Cove. Not the last of the landing party that soon stepped ashore was a 15-year-old Cabin Boy Kenneth Rawson, tanned, broadened...
...hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times as fast as the fastest electron (electric particle circling an atom's nucleus) and 57% faster than light. They go, in fact, 294,000 mi...