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...help. Dr. Brickwedde obtained a gallon of liquid hydrogen, evaporated it to one cubic centimetre, bottled it, sent it to Dr. Urey at Columbia. Dr. Urey and George Murphy, his associate, put the precious drop in a vacuum tube, shot an electric current through it until it glowed brightly, split up the light with a diffraction grating. Three years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, they found the spectrum lines of heavy hydrogen exactly where they had predicted...
After a week of suspense, the Oxford Union Society has replied through the National Broadcasting Company to the Debating Council on the subject of the radio debate to be held on December 8. Oxford cannot accept the proposal for a split-team debate on news censorship, but wants to uphold the affirmative of the resolution for an Angle-American alliance, first proposed by Harvard, which wanted the affirmative as well...
...with Columbia by the following members of the Harvard Debating Council: Thomas H. Quinn '36, chairman, Victor H. Kramer '35, Hubert H. Nexon '37, and as alternate, Harold W. Danser '37. Choice of the two members for the Oxford debate is reserved until Oxford either accepts or rejects the split-team debate on news censorship...
...situation remains unchanged and that sooner or later the gold standard will be abandoned. At one time the storms of last week seemed about to rock the boat and there are signs of a typhoon in the offing. This question of the effect of abandonment on our markets has split the experts into two distinct schools of thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will rise abruptly. The other group holds that it will be a severe economic shock and result in declines because our favorable...
From the first three names will be chosen two, who will go to New York on December seventh to debate with Oxford over the combined networks of the National Broadcasting Company and the British Broadcasting Company. The debate will be either a split-team debate on the subject, "Resolved: that this house considers a censorship of news desirable," or a straight debate with Harvard taking the negative of the question, "Resolved: that there be an Anglo-American alliance to preserve world peace...