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Millikan Ray. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory (Pasadena) reported his five years' research upon a new ray, shorter, quicker, more penetrating than even the Xray. It will pierce two feet of lead. It reaches the earth continuously from surrounding space. Whence it comes, what it does to the earth, how and whither its vast power can be directed, Dr. Millikan could...
...pump, the tubes, the indicator -all part of his new electric device for blood transfusion-were getting their first demonstration. The ordinary transfusion is complicated and requires the concentrated attention of several people. The new method is quicker, simpler, easier. In five minutes the seller, minus several gills of blood, was speeding away with his money in his pocket, and poor Mae Wahl was sitting up in bed. Soon she would have a patch of red in each meagre cheek...
...knee pads protect the legs from injury. This new equipment, according to Wendell, will enable a player to shift quickly from a crouching position to a standing or running position, and in wet weather it will naturally reduce the weight of equipment and enable faster running and quicker dodging...
...this truth, even in a bygone time when college students were quicker to recognize it than they are today, has never restrained boys and girls in college from discussing, among themselves, the merits and demerits of this or that course of study, or of this or that professor. On the contrary such conversation always goes on at our colleges. The only limitation is, that it is seldom very carefully thought out, in the give-and-take of ordinary speech, and is almost never overheard by the professors themselves or by the reigning authorities, who might conceivably receive some benefit from...
...just under 3x5 inches). We all know what a nuisance are the bedquilt Bank of England notes. Our the smaller bed-size is vastly more convenient. If this were again reduced to postal size,, it would still give space 'for all needed printing and would be much quicker in handling, much more compact in money drawers. and safes and, constantly kept flat, would wear five times as The original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very wasteful of both time and space. Why can't we profit by this experience...