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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important discoveries made by Professor Casagrande is that the pressure exerted by crystallizing ice against the soil in which it is confined is not constant for all freezing temperatures, as it was generally supposed, but increases in proportion to the amount the temperature falls below the freezing point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New "Cold Room" Laboratory at Engineering School Allows Study of Frost Action on Soils | 2/5/1936 | See Source »

...whom we do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience with all hearty and humble affection: beseeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless (he royal Prince Edward VIII with long, happy years to reign over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Liege-Lord | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...waxy compounds run the risk of getting their pores plugged, breaking out with pimples. To safeguard against that industrial hazard in its York factory, General Electric compelled every workman to take a shower bath before leaving the factory, supplied freshly laundered overalls twice a week, kept a physician in constant attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Factory Acne | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...requires no superhuman gifts or previous experience, but rather demands good intelligence and the ability to learn under sympathetic direction. Aspirants for the Business Board are kept under the constant guidance of the experienced members of the Board. If under this tutelage they develop skill and ability, they are given wider discretion in seeking accounts, and not infrequently business candidates have been successful in developing new lines of business for the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMBRYO TYCOONS GET CHANCE TO SEE BUSINESS SPHERE | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...champion of the Bolsheviki, a close friend of Lenin. When Reed died of typhus in 1920, she wrote for Hearst, wangled the first interview from Mussolini. In 1923 she married Socialite Bullitt, bore his daughter Anne in 1924, was divorced by him in 1930 for "personal indignities." Thereafter, in constant financial difficulties, she made her home in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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