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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights (some of them also sound horns or buzzers) when the plane comes within 1,000 or 2,000 feet of an obstacle, either ahead or below. Chief value: the pilot is warned that an unseen mountain, or other dangerous "terrain," is close. The warning gives him time to climb out of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warning | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Lowell continued on its late-season climb up the basketball ladder yesterday, while Eliot House, top grin on the Straus trophy totem pole, split its double slate, dropping a tight basketball game to Dunster and drubbing the Kirkland House skaters at the Arena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Lowell, Funster Win In House Tilts | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...enrollment dips back to normal in 1949 and 1950, per capita costs will climb again, Bender explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender Sees Rent Boost as First in Overall Increase | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

Meanwhile, anti-UMT publicity agents reported that "bus and train caravans" were pouring into Washington from all over the country to protest the proposed bills. A round table discussion opened the assembly yesterday, and delegates will climb Capitol Hill today to apply pressure on Congress against the measure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hearst Sees Red Influence Behind Anti-UMT Efforts | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Crimson has been pulling itself up by the boot straps during the past few weeks, in preparation for the Carnival. Over-specialization, a big bump blocking Harvard ski hopes for decades in their long climb to top ski ranks, has been assuaged somewhat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

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