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...Utmost secrecy always shrouds the structural details of new munitions of war. This one, announced last week by its inventor, Dr. Edwin R. Scott, is called the "death stroke" or "canned lightning." The Navy Department, which has been in touch with Dr. Scott's researches, hinted that the ultraviolet ray was involved, but Dr. Scott stated specifically: "There is no ray or beam about...
...very slightly heavier than a baseball, the rule specifying that it must weigh "not less than 5½ oz. nor more than 5¾," while a base ball must weigh "not less than 5 oz. nor more than 5¼." In circumference, the balls are the same. The utmost possible difference of ¼, to ½ oz. in weight should not, I am reasonably sure-, at any rate not 39 ft. affect and over. Probably, with a cricket ball, slightly heavier yet with no more atmosphere resistance, I might have thrown even farther. Field day exercises were held...
...single one of the hackneyed, conventional thriller devices is omitted. If we could sit back coldly and explain to those in the few rows within whispering distance that, technically speaking, it is not a very good play, we might not be so very far wrong. Despite our utmost efforts, however, we find ourselves constantly on the edge of our seats, on the very verge of yelling to the heroine in distress, "Hey! Look behind you!" So what...
...Nurmi will run after the Harvard-Princeton meet on Saturday. It has not been settled who will race against Nurmi, but whoever it is Major Moore declared it would not be a paced race. Nurmi's opponents will be handicapped so as to force the great Finn to his utmost...
Constructed at the lowest possible cost, they are permanent investments of the utmost value...