Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field workers P.B.H. has obtained Miss Bertha Goldthwaite, head of the metropolitan Boston Council of Social Agencies, who will conduct the community survey. Calvin Yuill of the Metropolitan District Housing Commission, having access to the offices of local housing agencies and to plan of recent low-cost housing development, will tutor men who are concentrating" in that field...
Only last summer Washburn sealed Mt. Bertha, precipitous Alaskan peak, accompanied by four undergraduates: Maynard M. Miller '43; Thomas Winship '42; Alvah Morrison '43; and Lee Wilson, '42. He is to speak on this trip and will illustrate his talk with colored slides and motion pictures. To conclude the program William H. Forbes '23 of the Fatigue Laboratory will discuss the effects of high altitude...
...Great Dictator" opens with a World War I sequence. The Big Bertha cannon is being aimed to destroy the great Cathedral at the center of Paris--but the shot succeeds only in blasting a little privy in the suburbs. Charlie Chaplin, himself, suffered a similar misfortune with this picture. He planned to pierce the Nazis with barbs of wit and make people laugh at the weakness and foolishness of Herr Hitler...
SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...
...large by ordinary standards, puny by those of Coulee's future, went into operation. The two supply 10,000 kilowatts. When the huge Westinghouse generators start pumping juice into the Northwest, these two will serve only to supply light and power to the dam itself. The first Big Bertha -whose parts, weighing 2,367,000 pounds, took 38 freight cars to carry them - will start in midsummer, will produce 108,000 kilowatts. When it and others like it are all turning, they will be able to pour into transmission lines 2,700,000 h.p. - about one-twelfth...