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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contract was made with a Forrest City salvage dealer that he would speedily remove the metal from the scene of the accident and that he would dispose of it for junk, not souvenirs. . . . The small amount realized from the lump of melted metal was given as a donation to the American Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...generations of human beings." These essays on the life and thought of Kipling, Wells, Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad, Strachey, Lawrence, Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield were first delivered as lectures to French audiences, and most of them suffer from the exigencies of their original purpose. Again and again an indigestibly large amount of biographical data is crammed into a study, followed by a series of extracts from the work of the writer with an expository commentary, and a critical estimate which in all but a few cases is disappointingly elementary and orthodox. The extracts are well-chosen, the exposition is competent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/6/1936 | See Source »

Because of the amount of time needed to enter the grades, it is impossible for the office staff to look up individual grades, for students during office hours. If those who have not received the grades from instructors will leave self-addressed postals at the Information Desk, 4 University Hall, the grades will be sent to them as soon as possible. A. C. Hanford, Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MID-YEAR GRADES | 2/5/1936 | See Source »

...important discoveries made by Professor Casagrande is that the pressure exerted by crystallizing ice against the soil in which it is confined is not constant for all freezing temperatures, as it was generally supposed, but increases in proportion to the amount the temperature falls below the freezing point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New "Cold Room" Laboratory at Engineering School Allows Study of Frost Action on Soils | 2/5/1936 | See Source »

Professor Casagrande also discovered that in sandy and silty soils, water for the growing ice layers is supplied from free ground water in the soil beneath. The faster the freezing ice is carried out, the smaller is the amount of water supplied from beneath, he found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New "Cold Room" Laboratory at Engineering School Allows Study of Frost Action on Soils | 2/5/1936 | See Source »

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