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...National Student League at Harvard is highly gratified at the success of the anti-war strike held this morning. Efforts on the part of campus rowdies to disrupt the demonstration failed, due to the strong determination of the students to make this a genuine indication of their opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michael Mullins and National Student League Publish Statements on Meeting | 4/14/1934 | See Source »

...Salvador and the day after Paul Revere's ride offer the scholar little in the way of rest and relaxation or a chance to get away from it all. On the contrary coming as they do usually in the middle of the week, they merely serve to disrupt the flow of work and give to the harrassed undergraduate a day in his room or the library with nothing to do and few places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DAYS WITHOUT END" | 1/11/1934 | See Source »

...volts which Dr. Van de Graaff expects to produce. At one end of the tube swarms of protons will be released. The high voltage will whip these particles down the tube against a target at the other end. Dr. Van de Graaff hopes that these bullets will disrupt the nuclei of the target's stable atoms in such comparatively copious numbers† that he will 1) learn more about the ultimate constitution of matter; 2) produce superpowerful x-rays: 3) glimpse a clue toward utilization of atomic energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 7,000,000 Volts | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...named Senora Martinez (Mona Maris), it comes out amazingly that John has been philandering. Even more amazingly it turns out that Mary has known about it all along. The scandal fails to disturb, for more than a moment, John's happy relations with his wife, fails even to disrupt his campaign for Governor. He has won it, been elected to the U. S. Senate and served in Washington for 30 years by the time his wife explains to their children about the secrets. It cannot be said that Secrets is a powerful picture or a thoughtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Last week a large section of the automotive industry sighed with relief at the end of a situation which had threatened to disrupt its whole vast production line. In Detroit the week-old strike of Briggs Manufacturing Co.'s 6,000 employes (TIME, Feb. 6) was definitely broken, with some 4,000 old and new workers bringing production rapidly back to normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Threat Averted | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

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