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Advertised by Max Keezer: I am paying 50 percent higher cash prices than any other dealer for your cast-off clothing, Old Gold, Watched, Chains, Diamonds, Bric-a-Brac, Furniture, Carpets, etc. Suits $3.00 to $20.00; overcoats $5.00 of $20.00; trousers...
...wealth, has done nothing to remove these antithetical classes. He merely proposes to put those on the bottom onto the top, leaving the lazy-industrious, grinding-brilliant, and privileged-deserving dichotomies intact. There is every reason to believe that far from blending with and stimulating "the 50-percent of the student body . . . called the Harvard community" the stipended scholars will be a distinct and imposing group...
Johnson O'Connor, one of the more able of talent-testers, claims to have an influence over a man's choice in only one percent of the cases. The Conference can hardly claim more than that. But it offers an unusual opportunity to learn the requirements for all jobs from leaders in their fields. Self-analysis is still the more difficult...
...known compounds. Deuterium promised to be a twin prima donna capable of producing 300,000 new compounds. Commonest hydrogen compound is hydrogen oxide-water. First and most obvious heavy hydrogen compound is deuterium oxide-heavy water. In fact this looks like ordinary water and is only 10 percent heavier...
...whose density could not be increased by repeated refinements, concluded he had pure deuterium oxide. Meanwhile heavy water's first fabulous cost of $150 per gram (about $37,500 for a glassful) was tumbling. By his "cascade" process which Dr. Urey last week described, 38 grams of 92 percent pure heavy water was obtained in 72 hours at a cost of $15 per gram. By summer Princeton expects to have from 12 to 15 lb. at a cost of $5 per gram...