Word: birches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confusing mixture of a 30-year-old artillery building and a bright shiny 1953 addition, Dunbar houses Harvard's experiments in geophysics, particularly the work of Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology. Originally Dunbar was used as an artillery shed during the first world war; since then it has been deeded over to science, and outdated relics of the militia have been replaced by high-powered compression machines as Birch and his small staff delve into the problems of the earth's inner composition...
...runs Dunbar, his offices upstairs, his machines downstairs, seems almost caught between the academic life and the work of a scientist. The upstairs rooms are clean and orderly. Downstairs there is machinery, the walls are not so shiny. Birch's own dress, a plaid tie and oxford shirt, partly concealed under a mechanic's apron, reveals part of a double life...
...Birch...
They chose Birch, then just an up and coming young physicist who had worked with Bridgman, now a leading man in the study of the combinations of pressure and temperature. With his changing staff--usually between four and five men--Birch has in most recent studies virtually disproven an old theory on heat convections causing mountains and at the same time advancing the study of the earth's pressures...
...tribulations of Foreign Correspondent Ernie Hill in the education of Jonathan may leave him "strictly speechless," but, for my money, not speechless enough ... If little school" Johnny can was hardly tardy 32 be times blamed in for one that year, fact the ... If six wallops with a birch cane were what Jonathan needed (as it turned out, big surprise), let Papa Hill know that birch canes are for sale in New York as well as in Lon don, and it is his legal duty to apply the cane. Is it an indictment of the American public school system that...