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...standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to Kansas City; by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to Pasadena, Calif. There in Caltech's laboratories, where a huge grinding machine has been set up, it will spend some three years acquiring the ideal paraboloid curve in its face. Some time before 1940 it will be installed...
Clarence Cowles, former judge of the Probate Court in Burlington, Vermont, awarded the Debating club the decision over Middlebury College in a debate there last night...
...play at war under the toughest conditions it could find, in winter-ridden New England. Since there was no "enemy," no "tactical problem," but merely a fight against Nature, the maneuvers themselves proved of little interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills to test equipment and find out, among other things, if machine-gun oil will lubricate at sub-zero temperatures. What made last week's war game newsworthy was the presence...
Japanese delegates to the London Naval Conference last week walked reverently with the U. S., British, French and Italian delegates around the great international loan exhibit of Chinese Art at Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). The soul of even the most bellicose Japanese is at peace in awe and wonder before marvels of Chinese Art. To the white delegates, most of whom did not escape inner qualms similar to an inferiority complex in Burlington House, sturdy little Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osamu Nagano explained exquisite niceties with elegance and charm...
...successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing anything, but whatever the risk Admiral Nagano was resolved to run it. First, however, he had insisted upon having his cabled instructions from the Son-of-Heaven minutely double-checked by cable while he expatiated in Burlington House upon the loveliness of Chinese...