Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ridge Observatory, established in 1932 in the midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. Oak Ridge's facilities, many of which were moved from Cambridge when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location not sufficiently free from dust and artificial lights to permit optimum conditions for astronomical observation, includes a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch refleflctor, and a 61 inch telescope with spectroscopic equipment. Oak Ridge is now the Department's headquarters for systematic photographing of the Northern...
...Communists took Kouchuan last August, were driven out Oct. 31 after a mild skirmish. They left the same pattern of destruction as in Kalgan: machine shops ruined, foundries and lathes demolished, burned-out roundhouses full of burned-out locomotives, hand tools and hardware broken and scattered in the dust...
Before the dust had settled from last week's explosion at the Sun, "Dimmy" Dimitman sent a thin-lipped memo to his editors. Excerpts: "Unduly large portions of our spot-news space have been devoted to subjects featured on the editorial page. > . . I think it should be our policy to gain readers before we concentrate on educating and reforming them. We are now preaching sermons to a congregation which believes them exactly...
...Victorian gothic, old Memorial Hall stead on the sacred precincts of the Delta, gathering dust and age, but with the exception of examinations NROTC classes, and an occasional performance in Sanders Theater it had seen its best days. It was a tradition but an obsolete structure in the University scene...
Eleven Indians bit the dust Saturday morning--and their scalps have now taken their places with trophies of other wins in the glorious tradition of CRIMSON football history. The game? of course it was the rugged tussle on the Hanover Common Saturday morning when 11 intrepid representatives of the CRIMSON whopped an outclassed Daily Dartmouth squad, 23 to 2, before 103,000 rabid spectators...