Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four centuries ago in India hung wetted grass mats over the doors and windows on the windward side of their palaces. A slight breeze might then cool their throne rooms as much as 20°. In 1901, somewhat the same idea occurred to a young Buffalo engineer named Willis Carrier, now the 60-year-old chairman of Carrier Corp., only major U. S. company devoting itself exclusively to air conditioning. The rather obvious idea of the Mogul emperors has grown into an industry that is sometimes compared to aviation in its infancy, highly technological and full of financial promise...
Captain Frederick Rosengarten '38 of Princeton won the Varsity five mile race in 28 minutes, 51 and four-tenths seconds. Holding hands with him at the finish was his teammate Peter Bradley '38. John Erhard, the Harvard banner carrier, was thirty yards behind the two Orange and Black harriers. Captain Erhard is a good cross country runner, but the two Princeton men are better still...
...with the Deacons. Coached by Ken Ryan of Utah State, the Puritans have perhaps the strongest defensive team in the league, with George Cole at tackle and Captain Moore and Charlie Gillilland at guards as the standouts. The backfield is built around quarterback "Little Joe" Hindle, a good ball carrier and an outstanding quick kicker...
...become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted for carriers whenever indicated. Ships from cholera-infected areas are not granted radio pratique.* Through passengers from infected areas traveling by Pan American Clipper airships will probably not be inconvenienced, since they will have completed the incubation period...
...coasts of China lay last week virtually every Japanese aircraft carrier, sending shoals of bombers off their decks daily. Chinese intercepter fighters and anti-aircraft batteries did magnificent work at the main centres of attack, such as Nanking and Shanghai, but little or nothing could be done against Japan's methodical daily bombing of China's necessarily exposed railway lines, the arteries of her troops and supplies. The new Hankow-Canton railway was so heavily bombed that neutrals doubted if it was still functioning this week, agreed that the line from Nanking which starts from Pukow across...