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...reasons which, it is to be hoped, are all too obvious. At any rate, rather than elaborate upon the point at hand, these columns can do no more than offer a fervent prayer that Librarians will make sure there are sufficient copies of books in constant demand before precious money is spent on such relatively unimportant material as fills the shelves in the room containing the Delivery Desk. Wherever may lie the blame for the discrepancy in available volumes, the situation has continued too long, and should be remedied immediately, now that the Reading Period is in the offing...
...temperature. He asked his friend Ferdinand Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards for help. Dr. Brickwedde obtained a gallon of liquid hydrogen, evaporated it to one cubic centimetre, bottled it, sent it to Dr. Urey at Columbia. Dr. Urey and George Murphy, his associate, put the precious drop in a vacuum tube, shot an electric current through it until it glowed brightly, split up the light with a diffraction grating. Three years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, they found the spectrum lines of heavy hydrogen exactly where they had predicted...
Since the world began, few men have thought or written so much about their precious selves as John Cowper Powys. If it were not for the personal pronoun and the exclamation point he would be tongue-tied. A more unabashed egotist than most authors, he gave his ego a field day last week by publishing a grotesque 595-page autobiography. Whether or not the mirror he holds up to himself is distorted, most readers will agree that the image it reflects is a little cracked. Author Powys admits: "I know, and I daresay my reader will willingly bear...
...Most precious use so far for the Hampton technique is to discern an ulcer at the pyloric end of the stomach. That is the stomach's most active spot. Ulcers there, declares Director George Hoyt Bigelow of Massachusetts General Hospital, invariably turn into cancers. As with all cancers, if the surgeon can recognize them in their early stages, he can destroy them before they destroy his patient. Director Bigelow told the surgeons in Boston last week that his staff surgeons, by operating quickly, have prevented cancers in practically every pyloric ulcer Dr. Hampton has photographed for them...
Then Radio roundly scooped the Press with the latter's own costly reports of the ballot counting. The Press rose up angrily and vowed never again to hand its precious stock-in-trade over to its most dangerous competitor. Columbia Broadcasting System organized its own newsgathering service, proceeded to sell a news program to commercial sponsors...