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...units lower than in other ultramicroscopes. If organisms never seen by human eye do exist in the filtrable viruses of common colds and infantile paralysis, they might be detected by light of such short wavelength. Light of longer wavelength they escape as minnows escape a loose-meshed net...
...Dearer to the hearts of the stockholders was the fact that in the process of gobbling up a score of other trusts during the past four years, President Odium had more than doubled the asset value of their shares. At the turn of the year Atlas stock had a net asset value of $11.02 a share, compared with $7.02 at the end of 1932, $5.05 at the end of 1929. Atlas hoarded its cash through Depression, waited until last spring to invest heavily. But most of the increase in the face of declining markets was the result of hard bargaining...
...other hand, Yale capitalized practically all its chances, and certainly received the breaks for the evening. Play was hard and fast during the entire contest, while both teams displayed for the most part as excellent brand of hockey. During the first period especially, Ray Townshend in the Yale net was called upon to make many spectacular saves as the Crimson club intermittently put on the foil pressure of a five-man offensive. Captain Paul deGive of Harvard came through with his usual stellar type of goal tending...
Inheriting melancholia from his father and scrofulously infected by his nurse's milk, Sam Johnson got off to a bad start. Though huge-framed and strong as a bull, he was myopic, twitchety, haunted by fears of madness and death. Net result, says Kingsmill, was to make him the apotheosis of honesty and common sense. "Johnson's fear of insanity immensely strengthened his innate truthfulness and sense of reality, for the lies and illusions which make life more comfortable for ordinary men appeared to him as the first steps towards madness." Extremely indolent by nature, Johnson was capable...
...House clear, came forward with the first plan. President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western informed the I. C. C. that he would: 1) put nothing into a sinking fund until his company earned its fixed charges, 2) thereafter set aside 3% of his first $2,500,000 net profits, and 4% of the next $2,500,000, and so on up to 20% on all profits over $20.000,000. In 1929 C. & N. W. earned $15,599,000; in 1932 it lost $11,216,000, last year it lost...