Word: combating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cazeaux a camera that resembled, in outward appearance, a Lewis machine gun. This "camera gun" was mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These pictures were developed and graded like examination papers at school-for correctness of lead...
...enemy" fleet trying to pierce the Scouting Force's defense of the same shoreline. This year he got the General Board's permission to reverse the problem, put the heavier fleet next to the land. As umpire aboard his flagship Pennsylvania he will follow the make-believe combat by radio, deciding which ship sinks which. When the engagement is broken off, he will summon all staff officers and ship commanders aboard the Pennsylvania for a critical discussion of Problem No. 14. He will announce no winner, no loser...
...remaining maids have to divide among themselves the work of the victims, as well as to undergraduate displeasure at the dismissal itself. The maids have to care for about forty-five rooms, on a salary of about eight dollars a week under the present arrangement. The students, to combat the decision, have been gathering in fraternities and dormitories to frame petitions, while it is understood that a protest will appear in the next issue of the Harkness Hoot...
...Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat it." The infected rabbits sneezed, indicating that a germ made Daisy Jost sneeze. Dr. Rosenow's men decided that the germ was the same one responsible for sleeping sickness. Before they could attempt to make a serum, Daisy got well spontaneously...
...biennially by abolishing four normal schools, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and the University of Tennessee Junior College of Agriculture. ¶ Professors and other officials at the University of Kentucky have not drawn more than half-pay for months. ¶ In Pittsburgh public men and civic organizations mobilized to combat a proposal to make the school board elective instead of, as at present, appointive. ¶ A nation-wide survey of school finance under the auspices of the U. S. Office of Education last week found that 9,500,000 children in the nation are deprived of proper education...