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...believe I have taken the proper course. . . . Will the measures which have been adopted or recommended prove sufficient to withstand the evil? We must hope so. As to the remedies which will act more profoundly . . . these remedies demand, above everything else, an evolution of a political and moral nature...
...Lash", Richard "Barthelmess vehicle, and attempt is made to re-create the conditions that existed in California in 1846 when that Mexican territory was annexed to the United States. The plot is concerned with the efforts of an old feudal family to withstand the introduction of Americans and their ways into their set and radically different mode of life. Barthelmess, as the young Mexican of noble birth, turns outlaw as the result of a beating he receives at the hands of a government official, and roams the countryside trying to preserve his ancestral ranch, and indigenous qualities of his people...
...gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless liquid at -456º F. That temperature is less than 4º F. above Absolute Zero, unrealizable goal of cryogenists...
...Slack's Westinghouse task was to make more permeable windows. A film of glass would serve, were it stout enough to withstand the suction of the Lenard vacuum tubes. Dr. Slack rounds the end of his vacuum tube until it resembles the butt of a test tube. Then he blows the glass to gossamer thinness. A last step is to exhaust the tube. This creates a knob at the tube's end, a knob so frail that when shattered its glassy film floats in air. so stout that it is as strong as steel. Result is that a pressure...
...increase of 2 Ib. per sq. ft. in each additional 100 ft. of height. The highest wind velocity Mr. Young and his subcommittee found was at the top of Mt. Washington, N. H. where the wind blew 186 m.p.h. A skyscraper built atop Mt. Washington would have to withstand a pressure of 102 Ib. per sq. ft. Homer Gage Balcom, Manhattan consulting engineer, told assembled engineers that Professor Clyde Tucker Morris of Ohio State University is conducting experiments in wind pressure on Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest. Total wind pressure...