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...protons of an alpha particle seemed to cling to the nucleus of a beryllium atom (thereby theoretically transmuting that atom of beryllium into an atom of carbon). The particle's other two protons and the two electrons seemed changed into what Professor Bothe considered an artificial gamma ray, which like a light ray is an electromagnetic phenomenon...
...Castillian face sharpened by the neat goatee and the craggy nose. And there are too, the imperious, mocking eyes. Over this brilliant figure is thrown the red robe of the most enduring and majestic institution that the world has even seen. It is a convass that stands like a ray of sunlight among the darker imperial shadows of Winterhalter and the more obsequious court painters...
EDWARD B. COPE RAY NEUMANN BEN BAINES WM. F. SALATHE...
...wish their alma mater turned into an advanced institution where everybody studies, studies, studies, most alumni of Stanford University were pleased last week. Acting President Robert Eckles Swain announced that the trustees had voted to abandon the plan which the late David Starr Jordan, Herbert Hoover and Ray Lyman Wilbur had favored: gradual elimination of the lower divisions of Stanford to make it a higher institution like Johns Hopkins...
...Venzke run his first races when he was a 16-year-old Reading millworker and later trained him at the Hill School track, foresaw his exploits this year. In the Millrose games last month, Venzke broke the indoor record (4:12), jointly held by Paavo Nurmi and Joie Ray, by four-fifths of a second. A week later, at the New York Athletic Club meet, he ran the fastest indoor mile in history-4:10. The outdoor record is 4:091/5, held by Jules Ladoumegue of France, who would certainly have run against Venzke in the Olympics...