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...locate its big drum which has been missing since last Saturday afternoon. The two custodians of the drum are divided in their opinions of its location, one being sure that it must be safe in the South Station, the other, remembering threats by Yale men, feels that a thorough search of the Yale campus might be effective in locating the instrument...
...drum was locked up at the field-house, but when the man who was to get the instrument called for it, he was unable to find it. If the drum is not found in the South Station, the scene of operations will be shifted to New Haven, and the search will continue until the drum is found...
After a long search for the highest possible ground where they could carry on experiments to be conducted for six months, the group chose the plateau at the edge of Tibet, which they could reach from India. The site of the camp will be near the shore of Lake Tso-Moriri, recently surveyed by a Yale geologist, at altitudes of from 17,000 to 22,000 feet. Starting from Bombay the expedition will go north through Kashmir and 400 miles across passes as high as 17,000 feet...
...Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm when at 12:30 the forward deck suddenly erupted. By some miracle...
That discovery accelerated the search for a vaccine which could immunize children against infantile paralysis. Blood of persons who have survived the disease contains invisible substances called antibodies which neutralize the virus. Hence they are immune. When serum from such blood is injected into a child's veins, the child also becomes immune...