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Parked behind Cruft Laboratory is an old Packard with a completely insulated copper body. With the aid of this car the Physics Department has been measuring the ionosphere 24 hours a day since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: African Expedition Looks for Sun Spots' Influence on Radio | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Charles E. Merriam, chairman of the department of Political Sciences at the University of Chicago, as visiting lecturer on Government for the second half of the 1940-41 academic year, and of Emory L. Chaffee, Gordon McKay Professor of Physics and of Communication Engineering, as director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, effective next September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elliott Perkins Named Lowell House Head | 4/11/1940 | See Source »

There are 3OO-odd dog shows held in the U. S. each year. Largest-even larger than England's famed Cruft's-is the open-air Morris & Essex show, staged each spring on the New Jersey estate of Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge. But the oldest and the most important is the midwinter West minster Kennel Club show, whose rosettes for 64 years have been tantamount to national championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocker | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...also resigned as Director of the University's Cruft Memorial Laboratory of Communication Engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE W. PIERCE, FAMOUS PHYSICIST, RESIGNS POSITION | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Pierce was named Rumford Professor of Physics in 1921, and Gordon McKay Professor of Communication Engineering in 1935. He has been director of the Cruft Laboratory since 1914. He was born at Webberville, Texas, 1872; received the S.B. degree from the University of Texas in 1893, and the A.M. in 1894; he received the A.M. of Harvard in 1899, and the Ph.D. in 1900. He was named assistant in Physics, 1901; Instructor in Physics, 1902; assistant professor of Physics, 1907; and professor of Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE W. PIERCE, FAMOUS PHYSICIST, RESIGNS POSITION | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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