Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain C. Russell Allen acted as the team's representative, receiving the award from Harry W. Black, local representative of the donors in Winthrop House. In addition to the bronze trophy, Allen was presented with an inscribed gold watch...
...restraints put on by the students themselves. Harvard men enjoy unparalleled liberty in ordering the affairs of their daily lives, for the College allows them to come and go at any time during day or night, and there are no such things on the Yard as skull caps, black ties, or other horrors for Freshmen. So far as the University and the rest of the student body is concerned, each individual is a unit sufficient unto himself...
...gallery is completed there may well be mention of last week's market, for prices sagged broadly to a new 1937 low. Dow-Jones industrial averages closed one day at 118.13, lowest closing point since June 1935 and only a fraction above the depths touched by prices on "Black Tuesday," October 19. U. S. Steel dropped...
...eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This was because tobacco is itself one of the best possible nicotine absorbers and because aluminum's sensitivity to temperature makes it condense the fumes quickly. Chemist Derr tried using an ordinary cigaret as a filter. He found that smoking one cigaret through another...
...sold its patent on the process to Count Cippico, who set up Zeus Corp. to handle it. The name Zeus was chosen because it is pronounceable in every tongue (same reason Eastman chose the name Kodak). From a tiny office in Manhattan, Zeus Corp. six weeks ago began distributing black aluminum holders in several sizes at $1 and $2 each. By last week Zeus holders were selling like hot cakes. Most convincing evidence of the gadget's merit lies in the using. Commented Esquire: "After you smoke a pack, take out the cigaret filter and be thankful that what...