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...spring of 1833, Peter Pindar Pease of Vermont joggled west in an ox-cart with his wife and five children to become the first settler in Oberlin, Ohio, where a group of missionaries to the Choctaws had staked out 500 acres for a town and college. The town of Oberlin celebrated the centennial of Peter Pindar Pease's arrival four years ago. Oberlin College, which in 1837 admitted U. S. women to a degree-granting institution for the first time, intends to celebrate this year the centennial of U. S. higher education for women. Last week it began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oberlin Overhaul | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...were aware that radio signals could be transmitted over long distances, but from a theoretical point of view they could not understand why this is possible. They saw no reason why this energy omitted from a transmitting station should not disappear into free space and be lost to the cart. To explain this difficulty, Sir Oliver Heaviside in England and Arthur E. Kennelly simultaneously proposed the explanation that radio signals are reflected from an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere and the energy thereby returned to the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crufts Laboratory Will Resume Study Of Ionosphere and Long Transmission | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...When he drank himself to death in London in 1783, aged 22, a London newspaper reported that "the whole tribe of surgeons put in a claim for the poor departed Irishman and surrounded his house, just as harpooners would an enormous whale." But Byrne had arranged with friends to cart his body to the Irish Sea, to weight it and sink it in deep water. Hunter, a Scotsman, learned of this, pursued the undertakers, cannily bought the body from them for ?500. Now Charles Byrne's mounted skeleton stands in London's Royal College of Surgeons, next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Crusty but popular President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 76, described himself as "a worn out old cart" when his followers recently insisted that he stand for reelection. Last week the Electoral Assembly of 300 passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Old Cart Out | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Crillon, greatest fighter of them all, laid out in death, was found to have wounds on every inch of his body in front, not a scar on his back. Of him it could be said 'he never feared the face of any man.'" Some Brisbanalities: "The best cart horse in the world can't beat the worst race horse." "There is more in any woman than any man can learn in 50 lifetimes." "A sneeze not nearly violent enough to dislocate an arm will always kill many millions of germs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of Brisbane | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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