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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laylin pointed out that the ability to stand up and answer questions, and to make an intelligent use of the library, were the main benefits to be derived from Law Club work. The cases to be argued are drawn up by the judges of the first courts, subject to the approval of the Board of Student Advisors. The judges are men in the third year of the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMES COMPETITION TO ENGAGE LAW FRESHMEN | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Thinking Machine Promises to Alleviate Labors of Mathematician--Inventor Is M. I. T. Professor | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

...White House made no answer. Nor did General Summerall permit himself to be "sicked" into a defiant frame of mind as he journeyed eastward. "A good soldier," he said, "does as he is told." Perhaps penitently, perhaps humorously, he added that a good soldier "never talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Super-Magruder | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...keel of the Ship of State. So he said that in the great capital city which he wanted on the banks of the Potomac River, there should be a great building: dedicated to the new nation's religious life. This purpose the Episcopalians intend that Washington Cathedral shall answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Washington Cathedral | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...deck, in large letters, Capt. Goos painted the answer: "true south, 40 west, 360 miles, Terceira, Azores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wingless Victory | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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