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...also presented evidence that the universe is older than scientists have before calculated from studying the heavens as well as the huge star clouds or nebulae which are supposed to exist far out in space. His proof of this is that there have been discovered particles of solid matter, or "cosmic meteors," which are moving through space at high speed. They are far out of the paths of the meteors that are visible from the earth...
...illiteracy of the people-and their representatives in Washington. Gresham's Law may be as applicable to individuals as it is to money."† But the convention at which he spoke, a meeting of the American Statistical Association, and twelve kindred societies convening simultaneously in Philadelphia, was good proof that U. S. economic illiteracy is no longer quite so black as it once was. For of nearly 5,000 men present at the great annual economic camp meeting the public for the first time recognized perhaps half a dozen names of notable economists among a list which included (besides...
Immediately throughout the land arose a great medical scoffing at the Tripp decision. Professor Horatio Hackett Newman, University of Chicago authority on twins, exclaimed: "Such an occurrence is scientifically possible, but most difficult of proof. Parentage tests cannot be made until children are 7 to 9 years old. Even then such tests are largely negative. The most reliable method of proof-blood tests-might be useful, although that would be accidental...
...gets grudgingly busy. Before Wynant is found, two more murders are uncovered. More conventional in plot than his earlier books and less slaughterous (Red Harvest had at least a dozen murders), The Thin Man is easily the U. S. murder story of the past year, adds one more proof to Author Hammett's title of No. 1 Crime-story Writer of the U. S. Hammett fans, of varying brow-heights, unite in admiring his hardboiled, naturalistic narrative and dialog. Some of them will feel, however, that for once Hammett's naturalism has taken him too far, when Nick...
...anyone needs further proof of Long's worth to our nation, I suggest that he be in Congress on that memorable day when Huey rolls in that chart, 18 by 36 feet or thereabouts, collars some confrere, and startles the nation with the Long plan for recovery. The only trouble with it, said Huey, is that it might take a long time to work...