Word: disks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Antarctic continent is a pie-shaped disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
Approximately 25 years of record history are covered by the disks which students have turned in at one shop. Here a close inspection of hundreds of records reveals that the oldest disk is numbered 8565; the latest Victor release is numbered 22149. One old record bears the title. "That Baboon Baby Dance." The assumption is that it was released about the time that the evolutionary theory was becoming well known. Another disk reveals the fact that at one time in the past the Turkey Trot was all the rage, if one is to trust the number of them recorded...
...long, 10 ft. high, and just one arc of the 133-ft. diameter ring which is to be the "keel" of the airship. A rope on standards marks off the round of the ring-to-be. Within the circumference are 400 dignitaries, official guests, each with a 3-in. disk of duraluminum, memento of the "ZRS-4 Ring-Laying...
...steel islands (seadromes) which Edward R. Armstrong of Holly Oak, Del., proposes to anchor 375 miles apart across the Atlantic. The model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their waves did not touch the platform nor did they rock it. The heavy horizontal disks at the lower ends of the hollow columns, below...
...award came at the annual H. A. A. dinner held at the Harvard Union for the coaches, the Administrative Board, and the Assistant Deans, W. J. Bingham '16. Director of Athletics, presented the medal, a bronze disk bearing on one surface an inscription, in Greek, composed by E. K. Rand '94, professor of Latin, meaning "athletics is the body's harmony". The obverse side carries the lines...