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...device operated by liquid air puts ring-inserts in cylinder blocks, downs labor cost...
Though Andrew Ellicott Douglass is a capable astronomer and director of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, he is most widely renowned for his pioneer work on the growth of tree rings. More than three decades ago Dr. Douglass had a great hunch and started examining the rings on yellow pines. By the time he had made 10,000 meticulous measurements and compared them with weather records he had verified what he suspected from the first-that the thickness of each year's growth ring is proportional to the amount of rainfall that year. It was clear...
Death is the final curtain to every man's performance, but sometimes it would be more decent, more dramatic to ring it down beforehand. The applause for Napoleon's last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together...
...possibilities of this sort of levy are immense. In a large inflation, a rich man might have the greater part of his fortune expropriated. In an inflation such as the one Germany passed through after the war, even a small investor would suffer. If he owned a gold ring worth a little over a mark, he would make a mark profit of over a trillion marks, on which he would have to pay the tax. No wonder the threat of inflation scares American property-holders and forms a definite deterrent to recovery...
...Varsity goes into the ring with a flying start, having the bouts in the two lightest classes won by default. Exhibitions in the 135 and 145-pound classes are being fought to bring the total up to eight, and aside from this initial advantage, for the Crimson, Coach Henry Lamar looks for a closely contested match. Harvard's record for this year is comprised of a 7-1 victory over.M.I.T., and a 6-2 loss to Virginia...