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...ordinary water) was found in the sap and wood of willow trees, in the Dead Sea, in Great Salt Lake. European experimenters dissolved sugar crystals in heavy water, recrystallized them by evaporation, found that the sugar molecules had discarded some ordinary hydrogen atoms, taken on deuterium atoms in their stead. When luminous bacteria of the kind that produce phosphorescence in the sea were placed in heavy water at Princeton, their output of light was dimmed because their oxygen consumption was slowed. Pathologists at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital hoped heavy water might prove fatal to cancer cells, were disappointed...
...Arthur Francis Mullen, Committeeman from Nebraska, resigned to continue a lucrative political law practice in Washington. Last week in a stormy Democratic meeting at Grand Island, Neb. Mr. Mullen shouted: "I represent the President here." At his command his henchman, Keith Neville, was elected National Committeeman in his stead. ¶Nellie Tayloe Ross. Committeewoman from Wyoming and national vice chairman, resigned to continue her job as Directress of the Mint. ¶Jed Cobb Adams, Committeeman from Texas, resigned to continue in his job on the Board of Tax Appeals-a resignation offered in May 1933 but which Mr. Farley...
...offense from roughing the goalie. One provides that no player may cross a dotted line 57 in. from the goal mouth unless he is carrying the puck. Another defines, by dots in the ice, a defensive area which no attacking player may enter ahead of the puck-carrier. In stead of making both the chief referee and his associate follow the play over the whole rink, the ice is now divided between them. The chief will wear white, his assistant blue...
...newspaper executive who gets around a little and has first-hand knowledge of his town. He is a connoisseur of people, especially fantastic ones, and seeks them out as the late J. P. Morgan sought rare old snuff-boxes." He has journalistic premonitions which stand him in good stead. "He is practically a whippoorwill in his ability to forecast death, especially the death of an eminent citizen." Generally considered Manhattan's most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having been born elsewhere (on a Texas ranch), its second...
...teaches the practical application of economic principles but a though groundwork in this line is not necessary He advises future business candidates to major in the field which interests them most, adding that one or two Economics courses plus a half-year of accounting might stand them in good stead...