Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department stores have used Chapple's machine to see how efficient their clerks are.
The Geography controversy began in February 1948 when the University terminated the temporary appointments of two faculty members in the division. Stripped to one permanent geography appointee, Professor Derwent S. Whittlesey, the Department of Geology and Geography was forced to abolish Geography as a field of concentration.
In each department, men are interested in the temperatures of things they can't touch, Professor Donald H. Menzel wants to explain the temperature of the corona, a collar of thin gas around the sun. Professor Louis C. Graton wants to find the temperature of geyser holes.
To solve all this, Menzel directs a cone-roofed observatory in Colorado, and a new station in New Mexico, close to the site of the first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes...
Police late last night disclosed that the Bulck sedan used by the burglars was reported stolen in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. It belongs to the Maiden School Department. It's license number was recorded by the two Adams residents who witnessed and reported the store robbery.