Word: 1920s
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...trying to unravel the detailed behavior of El Nino, Ralph and dozens of other researchers are furthering a scientific quest that began in the 1920s, when the British meteorologist Sir Gilbert Walker linked swings in atmospheric pressure over the Pacific to a disastrous failure of the Indian monsoon 50 years earlier. In the 1960s, UCLA meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes suggested that El Nino was governed by the same swings in atmospheric pressure...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company decided to go for a mix of cyberpunk and 1920s flapper...
DIED. WALTER DIEMER, 93, creator of a chewy, rubbery substance better known as bubble gum; in Lancaster, Pa. An accountant for the gummaker Fleer Corp. in the 1920s, Diemer tinkered with gum recipes during his spare time. Bubble gum--later marketed as Dubble Bubble--was an experimental mistake, but local kids bought out his first 5 lbs. of the stuff in a single afternoon...
...wires and networking. Nobody yells "Carp-e-e," although choicer epithets are often used for a dilatory night editor. The practice of releasing unpublished stories to the public press, which had already been suspended once James wrote his article, died a natural death from old age somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, its grave unmarked. But candidates still botch stories and give "wonderful excuses," and the flavor of a real newspaper is still there...
Abbot Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, wasHarvard's president during the 1920s, and TheCrimson's editorial page made his policies--andautocratic personality--the focus of many acritical comment. His Plans to build MemorialChurch and institute the House Plan met withvigorous Crimson opposition. The anti-MemorialChurch editorial was picked up by the Boston andNew York papers, which seemed incensed that acollege paper would oppose a war memorial. Thiswas the last great campaign before The Crimsonsettled in for several of its worst years...