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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month, curious Chicagoans saw this dream monster in broad daylight. Fathered by the Armour Institute of Technology, of which Dr. Poulter is a scientific director, whelped by the Pullman works and christened Penguin I, it bumbled through the streets on a test run, got stuck under a viaduct. Extricated, it waddled off two days later for Boston at a speed of 10 m.p.h., sometimes less, paused to nose a truck in Columbia City, Ind., slithered off the highway into Mrs. Cleo Watkin's cow pasture near Gomer, Ohio, and came to rest with its nose in a drainage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Monster | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...member of the Economic Advisory Council and secretary of the Royal Economic Society, frequently stimulates the thinking of Britain's financial triumvirate: Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, and Lord Stamp, the Bank's most celebrated director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Stinger's Plan | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Before the game the members of the band will spell out the letters of HARVARD, playing a different tune with each letter. "Our Director," "Soldiers Field," "Gridiron King," "10,000 Men," "Onward to the Goal," and "Score," a tun written especially for Yale games, will be played in that order. The band will then spell out ELI in script, and form an II facing the Harvard stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND WILL PRESENT TRICKY STUFF AT SOLDIERS FIELD | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...Form in physical skills is the key to success in sports. Postural habits in study or business may keep you healthy or cause you to bog down" said the director, and it is his aim to produce this form by increasing the range of movement which, in Freshmen, is very limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...students are organized as the Harvard Radio Workshop, an organization first begun last spring by Archibald MacLeish, now librarian of Congress. Officers of the group are: production director, Arthur Gnaodinger '41, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Leverett House; continuity director, Wallace Hamilton '41, of New York City and Leverett House; and treasurer, James J. Storrow Jr., '41, of Chestnut Hill and Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty Undergraduates to Dramatize American History Over Radio Waves | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

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