Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maryland, its traditional pre-big three rival while Dartmouth engages Boston University, Brown. Cornell Columbia, Army, Navy, and Boston College are also meeting weaker teams. Williams and Holy Cross will face sterner opposition in Wesleyan and Fordham, while Penn. State and Pennsylvania are staging a real battle on Franklin Field...
...members of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia took their seats for their annual meeting last week in an atmosphere of ill-concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had notified Dr. William David Coolidge, assistant research director of the General Electric Co., that he was this year's recipient of the Howard N. Potts gold medal, in recognition of his now universally used invention, the Coolidge X-ray tube. And Dr. Coolidge had replied, saying that he would present himself for the reward, and at the same time submit a demonstration called: "A Method of Producing High Voltage...
There had been a premature announcement of Dr. Coolidge's ray and tube, saying that they were so powerful they would completely disintegrate the body of a mouse in a fraction of a second's exposure. Dr. Coolidge did not verify this report, but the Franklin Institute members heard of or witnessed the following...
Nevertheless, the Franklin Institute adjourned well aware that it had celebrated a moment in scientific history that would mark an epoch of no small proportions. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Leipzig and the General Electric Co., where Dr. Coolidge had studied and worked, rejoiced generally and in unison...
...rain at Franklin Field, Penn met Williams for the first time since 1892 and sent Murphy and Rogers and Paul Scull thundering through the line again and again for a 36-0 score...