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...Workers International Relief. Mrs. Frothingham's letter to the head of the visa department at Washington points out that in the past nonentities have been refused admittance and expelled for having views even less radical than those of Dr. Einstein. It protests against giving preference to the scientist. A test case arises here challenging the consistency of the lawn when applied to different individuals...
...different murder story for their front pages. The.victim was a girl. Her remains had lain undiscovered in Minnesota, not just a few hours, but for many years. The number of years was what made the story, as a murder story, a newspaper hoax and a scientist's delight. Professor Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota gave the story its first publication. Speaking before the National Academy of Science meeting at Ann Arbor last week, he set the number of years at some 200 centuries. That would make the Minnesota maid more than 10,000 years older than...
Professor Huxley, the grandson of the famous scientist and free-thinker T. H. Huxley, and brother of the novelist Aldous Huxley, is known as the author of numerous books on biological subjects. Co-author with J. B. S. Haldane of "Animal Biology," used in Biology A and Zoology 1 courses at Harvard, and with H. G. Wells of "The Science of Life," he also acted as biological editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has continued his grandfather's theory of evolution in two recent works, "The Stream of Life" and "Religion Without Revelation...
...less ubiquitous. Its chief value lies in its resistance to hydrochloric acid. Only gold is so resistant. But gold is too precious to coat the pots and pipes of Industry. Professor Fink, 51, claims to be the "originator of the drawn tungsten filament'' for lamps.* Another scientist given the kudos is General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge, 59. In 1914 the American Academy of Arts & Sciences gave Dr. Coolidge its prized Rumford Medal for the ''invention and applications of ductile tungsten." Dr. Coolidge also was in last week's news. Director of General...
...Mary Baker Eddy's declarations and definitions are squarely in line with the statements of the eminent Sir William Blackstone," declared Judge Frederick C. Hill, a member of the Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in a lecture last night in Phillips Brooks House...