Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film, as the title and the press blurbs indicate, is an attempt to record the social structure of savage arctic communities; coupled with this aim, as one expects, there is a human story, that of the life of Mala, chief hunter of one Eskimo village. The role of Mala is taken by Francis Lederer, while all the other parts, with the exception of a few Canadian police and sailors who enter the story briefly, are played by genuine Eskimos. Naturally, Mala's life is not a complicated one: he eats and sleeps and lies down with the ladies; and that...
...Gulf Stream, of wind-driven surface currents, of the habits and distribution of marine life and of many another aspect of the sea's vast and various lore, oceanographers must record temperatures not only at the surface but at considerable depths. Nearly a century ago a Frenchman named Aimé used a "reversing thermometer" for taking depth temperatures in the Mediterranean. This instrument had a constriction in the tube above the bulb. Having been lowered to a measured depth, it was flipped upside down by some such expedient as slipping a weight down the line to actuate a lever...
...Aimé's thermometer, improved but unchanged in principle, is still in general use. It necessitates a separate operation for every depth at which the temperature is obtained. Thus ocean students were excited last week when Professor Carl Gustaf Arvid Rossby, head meteorologist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that he and two associates had devised an instrument which would record a complete temperature gradient from the surface to a maximum depth...
...approach their solution in a truly disinterested and constructive spirit. Too often they have disregarded the true facts and the interests of distributors and consumers. . . . They have contended that their guiding motive has been the elimination of secret discrimination, fraud and waste. ... It is clear that their dominant aim was to preserve uniformity in price structure and to maintain relatively high prices to relieve themselves of burdensome and competitive devices...
...graduates. It should be a matter of great interest and pride as well to the students who are very much a part of the oldest college in the country. With a new constitution, which it is hoped will obviate the former tendency of the organization to forget its original aim of perpetuating the glories of Harvard's past by concentrating on the chores of members of social standing, the society is in a position to be a major factor not only in reviving respect for tradition among the undergraduates, but also in promoting their enthusiastic participation in the memorial activities...