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...announced that he has constructed a tube which will enable operators to localize X-rays better. When X-rays are produced by shooting electrons at a target, they radiate in all directions from their source. Some travel through the target, others back in the direction of the bombarding electrons. Present-day tubes have utilized the rays proceeding toward the electrons' source. These rays are not so intense as those proceeding away from the electronic beam. The source of their generation is in an inaccessible position making it difficult to localize the X-rays. Dr. Olshevsky found that by using...
...Harvard Legal Aid is one of many similar bureaus established in all the large cities throughout the country. Due to the complexity of the law in this complex present-day society, and the recognized power of wealth in deciding litigations, many aliens and persons without the means to protect themselves have to yield unjustly their pounds of flesh. It is the primary purpose of the Bureau to assist such as these...
...dollar in the Riverside Library is probably second among the reprints, being one of the most attractive books in the field. De Kruif's "Microbe Hunters" and Ludwig's Library, are in great demand, according to all reports. A taste for books with a critical attitude towards present-day American life is reflected in the sales of "Our Business Civilization" by Adams and in the continued popularity of Chase's "Prosperity, Fact or Myth...
Introduced as the last resort of distracted librarians and disappointed the sis-scribblers, the Turnstile, though the only solution for a serious problem, has its more human aspects. Two hundred years hence, its humble metal may be the goal of souvenir-seekers, the present-day transatlantic aeroplane enthusiasts, who will fight for a chip of the swinging arms rubbed thin by the contact with many shrunken, scholarly paunches...
...Present-day college educators have provided the student with a pleasant array of physical comforts, have built for him a cloister and a hearth, have provided him with unprecedented athletic facilities. Now they only have to ask that he refuse to stifle. With respect to creating a zest for knowledge and, above all, a zest for life, they remain with their eighteenth century predecessors, waiting for the horse to drink of the living water...