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...emerge from radium at 3,000,000 electron-volts. Stopped by the War, the cosmic ray hunt started with fresh impetus after Peace. In the U. S., brilliant, imaginative Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology, who had won the Nobel Prize for isolating and measuring the electron, sank his recorders under 280 ft. of water in California. Some rays, after fighting their way through the atmosphere, had enough drive left to reach that depth in the lake, indicating power to thrust through 25 ft. of solid lead, which was 50 times more penetration than any other known radiation...
...Freshmen swimming team sank Gardiner High 46-19 with a deluge of six first places Saturday afternoon...
...President squiggled his signature on an executive order and NRA at last folded its moulting blue wings and sank to ashes. Of its remaining 2,000 employes, 600 were ordered fired, about 30 were transferred to the Department of Labor, the rest to the Department of Commerce where they will finish their work by April 1 and quit...
...Kessler, crack left-handed forward, they snipped off the lead, drew up to one point behind. With 30 seconds to play, Purdue's forward, Jewell Young, had an easy lay-up shot. The ball rimmed the hoop three times, slithered off. A few seconds later, N. Y. U. sank a free...
...best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor. Darthula's nagging drove her beau from a good pedestrian job to a short-lived "position"; when that sank under him and he turned milkman for lack of something better, she broke the engagement. Mrs. Hoe's job grew more precarious; Mr. Hoe's desperate figuring on the backs of old envelopes got him nowhere as usual. When Author Lawrence tots up her human sum she finds a sadder...