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Ranked in scientific achievement with Newton and Einstein, Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, last week began his final contribution to physics. Again and again delayed?by illness, the collapse of delicate machinery, minute improvements in apparatus?Dr. Michelson stepped up to his corrugated steel, mile-long test tube stretching along the valley near Santa Ana, Calif., pressed a button, started whirling the tiny 32-sided mirror that is to determine once and for all the exact velocity of light...
...Works in the newly formed Aznar Cabinet. The younger de la Cierva, at 15, built with two young friends what he believes was the first successful airplane ever to be constructed in Spain. In 1919 he built the second tri-motor in the world. It flew well, but a test pilot unaccustomed to such craft banked it too low, side slipped it into a heap of wreckage. Then it was that Senor de la Cierva determined that aviation would need a ship that could be flown slow as well as fast, low as well as high, in safety...
...Wednesday, March 4 in Room O on the top floor of the Widener Library. Only former prize winners will be ineligible to participate in the contest, which will consist of writing a three-hour examination paper. No previous registration or fees will be required in order to take the test; neither will the name or standing of any except the winning participants become public...
...examination will test thoroughly the candidates' familiarity with important events of the preceding 12 months, covering the period extending from March 1, 1930 to March 3, 1931. To the writer of the best paper a prize of $150 will be awarded; second and third prizes will be $75 and $25 respectively. The winning papers of all 20 of the colleges taking part in the contest will be sent to Professor Henry B. Huntington of Brown University, chairman of the executive committee, to compete for the additional intercollegiate prize of $500, which is awarded annually to the best paper...
...book to be read at a sitting but one from which choice bits can be culled at the reader's leisure. The format and cuts are more than ordinarily attractive, and taken all in all the book impresses me as one that will stand the test of time, at least with those who have made its acquaintance...