Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college girls in a typewriting contest in Chicago. High school and business college girls competed. Best of all was Dorothy Dow of Cleveland's West Technical High School who did 96 words a minute. Nevertheless the University of Washington girls' performances helped their professor of education, Dr. August Dvorak, toward fortune. For Dr. Dvorak invented the arrangement of letters and symbols on the typewriter keyboards with which his students won at Chicago. The Dvorak-Dealey* Simplified Keyboard attempts 1) to make both hands do equal amounts of work while typing and 2) to prevent fingers interfering with...
...series of industrial excursions to take place on Tuesday afternoons has also been arranged. The schedule follows: July 11, Athenaeum Press; July 18, General Baking Company; July 25, Lever Brothers Company; August 1, Boston Fish Pier; August 8, W. F. Schrafft & Sons Corporation...
...Chemistry, will outline parallel development in his fields. Each lecture will be accompanied either with experiments and demonstrations or lantern slides. On July 27, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is scheduled to give a similar talk. F. H. Crawford, Assistant professor, will give the lecture on Physics on August 3, and Professor Roderick MacDonald will conclude the series on August 10 with a discussion of the important discoveries and progress made in the field of Zoology. The lectures will probably be held in the New Lecture Hall or in one of the auditoriums in the Biological Laboratories so that...
...Subjugation of the Protestant churches in Prussia (stronghold of German Protestantism) to the regulation of the State by the appointment last week of Nazi Herr August Jaeger as Commissioner for the Evangelical Church. This Hitler challenge to Protestantism brought the immediate resignation as Reichsbishof of the Evangelical Church of beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh "Bishop of the Poor" who was elected Reichsbishof only last month by a non-Nazi Protestant majority (TIME, June 12). Last week the Nazi Protestants, organized as the German Christian Church, manifestoed: "Protestants! Our true leader, Adolf Hitler, has expelled your seducers! He, a most devout...
...Chemist Francis William Aston of Cambridge, England. Physicist Niels Bohr and Neurologist August Krogh of Copenhagen, Neurologist Archibald Vivian Hill of London. Chemist Theodor Svedberg of Upsala...