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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Methods in a "scientific and humanitarian program" for defense of civilian populations against submarine and air bombers were the topic of a talk by President Karl T. Compton of M. I. T. in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compton Talks on Civilian Protection | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...member of the present War Resources Board, Compton was Associate Scientific Attach to the American Embassy in Paris during the last war. He discussed the various devices used at that time for detecting submarines and bombers, and evaluated the importance of recent improvements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compton Talks on Civilian Protection | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...skeptical scientists to prove that Mr. Longoria was talking big through his hat. But last week he laid himself wide open by announcing: "The ray lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Specific | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...PAIR OF HANDS-Monica Dickens-Harper ($2.50). An engaging great granddaughter of Charles Dickens reports breezily on her adventures as a cook (a job she took on for adventure's sake). Her cook's-eye conclusion:"A kick in the Pants for allemployers." Novelist Compton Mackenzie contributes an appreciative foreword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...President Walter S. Gifford; Sears Roebuck's Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, who, as Acting Quartermaster General, directed U. S. Army purchases in 1918; able though little known John Lee Pratt, a retired vice president of General Motors; M. I. T.'s Physicist Karl T. Compton; Brookings Institution's Economist Harold G. Moulton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Short of War | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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