Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's pioneer experimentation with automatic radio meteorograph balloons, for upper air soundings, after three years has resulted in widespread use of such instruments for regular weather observations, Professor Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Observatory, of Harvard, said yesterday in his annual report...
...luring, beckoning with their tails. A svelt mermaid wriggles by. Vag thaws a bit. Lighter and lighter. Then the upward motion stops, and the water drains off the window for the first time in a month. Heavy wrenches clatter against the door bolts. It loosens. A whisper of new air comes in. A whisper, then a hiss, a roar...
...schedule for this semester includes more than 20 debates, including nine "Harvard Forum of the Air" broadcasts. First in the regular WAAB series is the February 17 debate with Vassar College, on the resolution, "That women should declare themselves independent of fashion." Harvard will maintain the negative side of the question...
Last Sunday's People's Rally was important for two reasons: 1) it marked Radio Wheelhorse John B. Kennedy's 15th year on the air; and 2) it sought public opinion on whether the Neutrality Act should be changed to permit shipments of arms to nations which have been attacked. To take the affirmative on last Sunday's question, Kennedy picked in-&-out Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard, was surprised to find Villard an out-&-out neutrality man. Keeping Villard to say the nays, he then got Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer for the affirmative...
Real neutrality problem of the People's Rally any week is keeping Mennen's out of the argument. This circumspect Journalist John B. Kennedy has thus far managed adroitly in a rich, forensic brogue (with occasionally dropped aitches) that has been on the air longer than that of any news commentator except CBS's H. V. Kaltenborn. His first radio stint took place in 1924, over WJZ, when he was 30 and associate editor of Collier's. In 1925 Collier's installed him on the Collier's Hour that continued until 1931. After Collier...