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TIME boasts of its accuracy, but not entitled to boast is the Census Department on its figures for cities and towns of over too population. I selected 36 cities and towns from each State at random and noted how many times the figure zero appeared in the second column from the right. I found that in 30.2% of the cases the figure was zero. Examples: 101, 1003, 504, 10,007. Obviously Cornerville was trying to get ahead of Centerville: Waterville was trying to get into the 200 "class." The figure five also appears an abnormally large number of times...
...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. At such low temperatures molecules almost stand still, display fantastic electromagnetic properties...
...world city. Wrote Marie: "We see our selves here under the necessity of becoming saints. We must consent to this change, or perish." Her daily business, however, was to turn little Indian girls into good Catholics, and she went at her job with a will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual...
...working conditions. Much more is demanded of the economic system today. ... I know of no formula and of no program by which such objectives can be obtained in a social system which is as complex as our own. It may be possible for the Russians, who have started from zero, to build up a satisfactory social system by centralized initiative. We have no right to prejudice them. . . . [But] while the Russians may be building a very modern house on very modern foundations, they are building their house on a vacant lot; we have to reconstruct our old house while...
Altitude. A scarlet-and-cream Lockheed-Vega, with handsome Socialite Ruth Nichols at the controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record...