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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps, will give the first series of talks on the chemistry of developing and printing the negatives; from there, the embryo fliers will advance to the interpretation of photographs taken from the air. To an inexperienced observer, aerial photographs are either wholly or partly unintelligible; so to correct this condition, Captain Dache M. Reeves, also of the Air Corps, will demonstrate and explain the method of correctly interpreting the pictures. The mathematical side, involving the computation of scales and altitudes, will be presented by Captain Bruce C. Hill, who is of the Engineering Corps, while First Lieutenant James F. Phillips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100-lb. Cameras and Zero Weather All In Day's Work For Geography 36 Men | 11/2/1933 | See Source »

What you say in your editorial: namely.--"To keep the museum library open at night involves only the use of the electric lights for a few hours, and one attendant"--is not quite correct. It means not only that expense but also the expense of heating, which alone is figured at five dollars an evening, and unfortunately these expenses amount to a higher sum of money than our budget will stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fogg Cleared | 11/1/1933 | See Source »

DESTROYING ANGEL-Norman Kline- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Tangled domestic relations, entwined with murder, bring Detective Jones to Up-the-Hudson society. Loud boorishness relieves him of the case, but a hunch proving correct brings the solution and his recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...reduction should have been even more drastic, inasmuch as for all except the Army and Yale games, a goodly portion of the Stadium is empty, and these seats may just as well be sold at low prices to men who would not otherwise attend. If this view be correct, then the failure of the Athletic Association's plan is due to the fact that it has been carried out only half-heartedly, and the remedy is to establish lower priced seats and more of them, not only for students, but perhaps for the general public as well. Opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESS AND POVERTY | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...British social conditions is deep and intimate. From it he argues that desperate capitalism will use the Fascist instrument in Great Britain, and he can see no reason to suppose that it will not be similarly applied in the United States. Nor, if his analysis of the instrument be correct, is there any reason to suppose so. What has made capitalism, in the words of G.K. Chesterton "not only a discredited ethic but a bankrupt business" is a technical advance safe only under social ownership, and that advance has been operative even more in these countries than in Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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