Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skits on the field which might reflect on other colleges. This edict, Finney asserted, would apply to any bandsman dressed up as an Indian, Bear, or Tiger. Finney also claims that there had been repercussions from Dartmouth and University Hall concerning the "Indian that came out of the cocktail glass" the band formed at the Dartmouth game...
...Halloween-masked men forced their way into the Glass Hall Studies of WHBS, the Business School radio station, at 9 p.m. last night and held an announcer and technician powerless to stop them as they broadcast ad lib for five minutes-but over a dead mike...
...world's most troublesome piece of glass, the 200-in. mirror of Palomar's Hale telescope, is back in shape again. Observatory Director Dr. Ira S. Bowen announced last week that the mirror, which was taken out for repolishing last May, has been tested on the stars and pronounced O.K. In places as much as 20 millionths of an inch of glass was polished off. Next step will be to cover the mirror with its shining coat of aluminum. Dr. Bowen hopes the big telescope will be hunting nebulae again by the first of the year...
...Aurex Corp. of Chicago last week announced a new gadget for increasing the hearing range of people with normal hearing. It might also do for eavesdroppers what binoculars have done for Peeping Toms. The "Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among...
...splintered stained-glass window, dedicated to the memory of the founder of Harvard University, was pieced together in New York City and rushed to London's Southwark Cathedral in time for its unveiling last Saturday...