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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
...cause of such Saharan aridity is the chilly Humboldt Current, flowing up from the South Pacific. The Humboldt gives off moisture, of course, but onshore winds from it, striking the warm land, rise and expand, dropping none of their burden as rain...
...mouth financing which has been for some time its only source of revenue. It will also relieve the Dean's organization of the constant pressure to raise money for the current expenses of research work. Using the income from the dormitories to support the normal research activities, we can expand as opportunity arises from this into a number of special investigations on particular industries, to be financed by the industries themselves...
Yale men speculated upon the future of their new school. Recent efforts of the Yale Dramatic Association had fostered an interest in the stage which could now expand enormously. Dean Everett B. Meeks of the Art School went promptly to work with a committee to plan buildings. Prof. Baker intimated that there would be a prize for the annual Yale play and Yale men recalled how plays from the 47 Workshop had reached Broadway, how Workshop graduates had become famed playwrights...
...calculations did not in-clude the local brand of corrupt politics. Abandoning the Irish base, he next tried Southampton but ran into the heavy handicap of red tape on the part of city officials. Simultaneously, he opened a small plant near Manchester, but has not found it desirable to expand his facilities there...