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Most significant news of the meeting was the Diesel engine. Though Diesels were patented by Germany's Dr. Rudolf Diesel in 1892 only about 40 have been installed, in U. S, busses and those for scarcely more than a year. Because Diesel engines burn fuel oil instead of gasoline...
The older rocks of the Midwest, on the other hand, made most of their adjustments a long time ago and faults are puny and unimportant. Only 20,000 or 25,000 years ago, however, a sheet of ice a mile thick lay over the Great Lakes region. The tremendous weight...
The course, entitled History of Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Art, is one of the most outstandingly useful and important in the Department or in the College. Fleeting study is attempted of all the great masters and monuments since the Roman era, and Professor Opdycke's conduct of the course is...
France and Britain were invited by the Dictator to renounce: "the illusion of Disarmament"; "the illusion of Collective Security"; "the illusion of Indivisible Peace"; "the absurdity of Juridical Parity among all States"; and therefore to renounce as the avatar of all these the League of Nations "and the lies that...
70. Since 1930 the Guggenheim Fund has been paying expenses of Robert Hutchings Goddard's experiments in the American desert near Roswell, New Mexico with (1 television, 2 dry farming, 3 rockets, 4 high compression gasoline engines, 5 malleable glass).