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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chemistry 5 on the Carbon Compounds has built its success on the late Professor Kohler's lectures. The lab work is well run, though, and it will still be a good course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...famed power rate "yardstick," as developed by Lilienthal, was false because from TVA's rate bases were omitted many costs which private utilities would have had to meet; the power loads built up to bring rates down were built haphazardly, wastefully, with expensive ballyhoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan, Morgan & Lilienthal | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...costs on TVA dams and reservoirs-between navigation, flood control, national defense, agriculture and power-Director Lilienthal tried to make TVA adopt the "byproduct" theory of power development, which would make the power look extremely cheap. "But for the power issue, the TVA dams never would have been built. To deny that is sheer hypocrisy . . . Mr. Lilienthal's byproduct theory is a subterfuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan, Morgan & Lilienthal | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Laboratories, who won a Nobel Prize in physics last year for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. Some years ago, Astronomer Francois Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal a 2,000-inch mirror telescope - ten times bigger than the 200-inch giant now being erected on a California mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Super-Microscope | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Paul Kelpe, 35, German-born adept at solidly built, rectangular abstractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architectural Painting | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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