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...Pinedo's plane (TIME, April 18); J. Ramsay Macdonald, onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel, (see p. 11).¶ On the presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...
...fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...
...determination of the velocities of electrons discharged from metals under the influence of ultraviolet light, the polarization of light from incandescent surfaces, the extension of the ultraviolet spectrum, the laws of reflection of gas molecules, the Brownian movement in gasses and the absorption of X-rays. But, like Scientist Steinmetz, he sees no conflict between science and religion. The blood of staunch, God-fearing New Englanders runs in his veins. His father was a Congregational minister. Queried about the cosmic mind, Dr. Millikan retorted: "Why not say 'God'? . . . I have never known a thinking...
...Ives' father, Frederick E. Ives, was himself a scientist of note; invented the half-tone process for printing (TIME...
...Cook, once a milkman and Brooklyn physician, is now 62 and a pauper. Some people believe that he is mentally, unbalanced. (He still says he thinks he reached the North Pole.) Others say that he is a much maligned man. Edwin Swift Balch of Philadelphia, a distinguished scientist and explorer who died last week, firmly upheld Dr. Cook's integrity. Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, said last week: "He [Cook] is one of the finest men I have ever known. As physician, with the Antarctic expedition of 1897-99, which was frozen...