Word: berg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berg, professor of Electrical Engineering at Union College, Schenectady, New York, will give two lectures on "Heaviside's Operational Calculus and Some of its Application to Engineering Problems." The lectures are under the auspices of the Engineering School, and will be given in 110 Pierce Hall, next Friday and Saturday at 12 o'clock. The meeting will be open to the public...
These icebergs rise in the Baffin Bay region, far north in the Arctic. Wellknown Arctic explorers declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that...
When an iceberg arrives at the Grand Banks it does one of three things. It either drifts off towards the East where it is destroyed by the Gulf Stream or drifts aground, if it is a particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...
...weapon employed by the Patrol to hasten the end of an iceberg's life. If the berg has a ledge upon which a man may land, a hole is chopped with an ice axe and the charge with a time-fuse attached, is deposited
Josephine Baker, interviewed at the Folies Bergère, said: "My husband sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything. His father writes me the nicest letters, and his mother is right here in Paris stopping with us for a while...