Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report recommended a minimum of 15 foot-candles for classrooms and offices, and a photoelectric control to turn on lights when illumination falls below the minimum. Because glare is as harmful as dimness, it also advised that glossy finish on furniture and glass tops on tables be eliminated, that pictures be varnished instead of glassed, that desks be shaded from the sun, that indirect lighting be used...
...Booth the morning after Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, and who for his apparently innocent treatment languished four years in Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas off Florida. Purpose of Daughter Nettie's visit: to apply for an accountant's job, so that she might earn $200, enough to finish research for an authentic Civil War romance. Asked about her father, she answered: "When he died I was lost, and I have been lost ever since...
Russ, or Rusty Greenhood will finish his second year of Varsity competition at Rutgers this Friday. His defeat of Yale's Endweiss and Christner last year was said to be one of the turning points that enabled Harvard to win. This season, he has been defeated twice: by Gibson, of Navy, and by Endweiss. Howin winning both the high and low-board titles at the recent intercollegiates, in ever, he avenged both of these set-backs which both Endweiss and Gibson competed...
...Nuys, Calif, and he wanted to get home in a hurry. Slipping aboard a T. W. A. transport during a routine, 20-minute halt, he locked himself in the toilet. Aloft a few minutes later, the disheveled young man appeared before 17 startled passengers. He was allowed to finish his ride in one of four unoccupied seats. At the next stopping place he was escorted off airport property and released. Only rub was that Flyer Hagaman, in the excitement of his adventure, boarded an eastbound plane, found himself in Dayton, Ohio, 150 miles farther away from home...
...depriving him of only two or three afternoons a week. But the Sophomore must solemnly bid farewell to sunshine and blue skies above, for the official maximum estimate of his laboratory hours in Chemistry 2 and Chemistry 3 is nineteen per week and he will do well to finish his work in that time. The Junior, with Chemistry 4 and Chemistry 6, practically establishes residence in the laboratories. The catalog estimates a mere twenty-four hours as a maximum, but again he will often run over this time. As a Senior, he will probably feel constrained to take two advanced...