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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lanier, Emily Dickinson, W. V. Moody". Dr. Carpenter, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/5/1931 | See Source »

...Champaign, Ill. Professor Frank G. Dickinson divided a standard billiard table into 398,000 blocks, calculated that there are 63,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrillion) possible billiard shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nerve | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Toronto in the matter of liquefying helium (after hydrogen most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless liquid at -456º F. That temperature is less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Precision's Palace | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...institutions from which the six crusaders have been selected are Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.), Boston University, Syracuse University, and Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.). The young men will work in pairs. They will start out from Boston, New York and Philadelphia this spring, moving west across the upper half of the U. S., visiting 50 cities per year. They will work the lower half of the country from west to east. In the South the pledge idea has already been started locally, said Dr. Wilson; 665,000 signatures have already been obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Young Men | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...LOWES DICKINSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

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