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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page size is 9 by 12. Offset printing and excellent design combine with the fact that some of the buildings pictured no longer exist to make the calendar, as the University Press puts it, "a distinctive, valued, and permanent record of Harvard's architectural beauties...
...Designed, according to the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, to achieve "a much more efficient arrangement of administrative offices within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in relation to one another," plus "the restoration of its original dignity, simplicity, and beauty of design to the interior of University Hall, so much of which has been lost in the overcongestion of recent years," the changes will take place in the near future, with Weld and Farlow possibly to be occupied by December...
...shore where the stiff white crosses mark a design for eternity, And the infantry of sleep is forever enrolled in silence, And the lives of men are but numbers, and an alien wind Comes up to the beaches, caressing The fallen sons of men of a distant country: Here, at last, the meaning and truth of freedom Opens, unsealed, before the eyes of the nations; . . . Here in the name of freedom all have been gathered Into the perfect union of purposes disunited- A brotherhood of men in the arms of death Who were never aware, in life, that they were...
Pocket Amphibians. But progress this way was slowed by bitter resistance. Another Canadian force knifed through the German pocket at its weakest point, and bisected it, reaching the Scheldt at Terneuzen. The design was to jump off from Terneuzen and land among the Germans downstream, creating a bridgehead within a bridgehead. Amphibious equipment could not be brought up the river, under the guns of German batteries at Breskens and Flushing, and had to be improvised on the spot...
This little brother of a P-38 fighter is the type of plane in which U.S. civilians will want to fly their families around in the postwar air. So, at least, Popular Science Monthly decided last week after scanning 3,345 light-plane designs in its postwar-plane contest. This winning design (prize: $1,000 war bond) was drafted by Donald J. Wheeler of Seattle, Boeing Aircraft Co. engineer. Wheeler expects private plane buyers will want a four-passenger ship with a speed of at least 130 m.p.h., a range of 500 miles, priced from...