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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organizer of his own electric company; inventor, developer and promoter of a motor car which bore his name. The laboratory which he has presented, complete with the most modern of everything in boilers, generators, delicate measuring devices, special laboratories for research in radio, high voltages, refrigeration, and many another branch of technology, represents part of the proceeds from Mr. Packard's eminently successful motor car.* Even as Asa Packer caused one of Lehigh's buildings to be inscribed with his name, so now might Mr. Packard, nor would it be unfitting to carve below the new laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Finest | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...year entrants have the advantage of getting in smaller sections and having during their period of training two summers in which to obtain practical business experience. During these summer months they can gain familiarity with much of the routine and practical functions of their chosen branch of industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

...observed as continuously as the Sun permits. The position of the Earth is a good one except for for southern stars and for these one must go below the equator. It is on this account that for a long time northern one servatories have established more or less permanent branch stations in the Southern Hemisphere, and southern colonies and nations have established observatories of their own, or have encouraged their establishment by private institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY MOVES TO SOUTH AFRICA | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

...Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter and master of the fine arts. Much of his time and thought was spent in the designing of projects in mechanics, hydraulics, military engineering in feeling his way along the thread of experimental study in every branch of theoretical and applied scence known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

...have already been so completely placed that there is even a shortage. 2) While most U.S. and Canadian churches have lately experienced financial stress, the United Church not only has met heavy organization expense, but also has a surplus. 3) United Church government has avoided favoritism of any one branch, yet not been so dispassionate as to be unjust to specially able workers taken over from any field. 4) General Councils, while marked by wide difference of opinion, have not split on denominational lines; prejudices were transcended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brotherhood | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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