Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduate committee is already at work spreading publicity in the form of posters and pamphlets around the dormitories; another committee will set up a Speakers Bureau at the Annex to cooperate with the University Speakers Bureau, which fills requests from civic groups for speakers...
Descriptions of six weeks of secretarial School and Experiments in International Living will appear in the report, which will be studied to determine how summer work opportunities differ with economic change, and to discover any particular trend since the war. The questionnaires will then be filed with the appointment bureau...
...happen to be planning or debating a vacation trip abroad with your family* during the forthcoming year, the following account of TIME Inc. Bureau Chief William Gray and family's two-month sightseeing trip from Shanghai to New York City via Europe may serve to help or inspire...
After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...
Last week Dr. Edward U. Condon, Chief of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, told the Paris conference that the job had been done-by transmutation. Pure gold (atomic weight 197), placed in an atomic pile and exposed to a storm of neutrons, is transmuted into a single mercury isotope with atomic weight 198. This one-isotope mercury gives off green light waves of extraordinary uniformity, as measuring sticks. They are much better than cadmium light; they are vastly better than the meter bar. Scientists using mercury light should be able to measure with an accuracy of one part...