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...object of the contest is to simulate a keeper interest in statistical economics, business forecasting, and the stability of economic life The length of manuscripts is limited to 12,000 words Further information may be obtained from Mr Ray B. Westerfield Secretary Yale Station New listen
...light year is the distance a ray of light, travelling at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, can cover in one year...
...country in the Knights of Columbus games at Mechanics Building tonight. Loren Murchison, sprinter from the Newark A. C.--perhaps the equal of Charles Paddock--L. R. Brown, former Dartmouth high-jumper and joint holder of the world's indoor record, and Lloyd Hahn, conqueror of the great Joie Ray in New York last Saturday, are a few of the more notable entries...
...flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent to the general approbation of the acting of Charles Ray. For his sake and for the undoubted historical value of the picture, it must be labeled worthy of consideration and approval...
...Stray X-rays escaping from a laboratory or doctor's office and endangering the health of persons in adjoining rooms will have their teeth pulled by an invention of Maximilian Toch, Manhattan chemist. Metallic lead sheathing has been used in such rooms to keep the rays in, but this is costly and the heavy metal requires special strengthening of building walls. Toch's method is the use of a barium compound in the plaster or paint on the walls of the X-ray room, barium being impervious to the rays...