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Result: the Democrats, split, lost the State, and bumbling Republican Arthur James took over the political mess known as Pennsylvania. This year Joe Guffey, to whom unkind fellows refer as "the greatest Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 60 years,"* is in an exceedingly tough spot. First, he must be nominated, and the machine leaders he defied two years ago will have none of him. Last week the Democratic State Committee met in Harrisburg to pick a candidate to succeed Joe. From Washington came hurried word that another wide-open Democratic split would be disastrous. So, after whooping through a Roosevelt...
...Finns also discovered how to deal with the armored sledges. Well placed hand grenades split the armor; machine guns did the rest. The Russians soon abandoned this tactic, went back to sending infantry across behind the shelter of the tanks...
...physicists who accomplished the feat were Nobel Prizewinner Jean Frédéric Joliot, son-in-law of the late Marie Curie (see p. 24), L. Kowarski, H. von Halban Jr., E. Perrin. Details of the experiment were meagre: apparently they split uranium atoms in such a way that a lot of neutrons flew out-entirely too many to be accounted for as the result of the first fissions. Some of the neutrons must have been products of secondary and tertiary fissions. After that the reaction was too weak to continue. But it was obvious that the release...
...heavily favored Dartmouth hoop team will engage the Crimson Varsity fresh from its upset victory over Tufts last Saturday in the indoor Athletic Building tonight. This game in the first home contest in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the Crimson who have split their other two League games...
...Most widespread U. S. mental disorder, according to expert opinion, is dementia praecox, or schizophrenia (split personality). Dr. Dayton's statistics tell a different story. Mental disease No. 1 is senile psychosis, the madness of old age. Causes: hardened arteries, threadbare nervous system, worn-out brain, tired heart, "outrageous fortune." From 1917 to 1933, there was an average of 2,000 senile psychotics per 100,000 population; schizophrenics averaged only...