Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Erect, white-mustached General Sir Bindon Blood was last week appointed Chief of the Royal Corps of Engineers by King Edward, who thereby revived a Stuart office which lapsed in 1802.† Informed of his new job Sir Bindon remarked, "I was too old to go to France when I...
The pick-&-shovel corps of Science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished animals, men and civilizations. Recent doings of diggers:
The tailor-made neo-Gothic campus of Washington University (St. Louis) has been buzzing for a month because authorities revoked the scholarships of one undergraduate and two graduate students for distributing circulars urging freshmen not to join the University's voluntary Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. In most...
To prepare doctors for such wartime troubles, 19 U. S. medical schools last month re-established Reserve Officer Training Corps units. Next year 31 medical schools expect to follow suit. When commissioned in the Army a doctor gets $2,000 a year as a first lieutenant, $2,640 as a...
More interesting and difficult work, however, is done by the mechanics in the scientific departments. Besides having to perform incredibly delicate and elaborate jobs the craftsmen must know enough engineering and science to be able to tell the researchers whether or not and in what way a projected machine will...