Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
Other school: Allen F. Hetherington, Jr., Huntington Schools for Boys; John J. Griffin, Jr., St. John's Preparatory; Phillip G. Sullivan, St. John's Preparatory; Ralph D. Powell, Jr., Noble and Greenough School; Francis J. Paradise, Keith Academy; Robert A. Stillman, Taor Academy; John F. Wilson, Mount Hermon; and Richard J. Talbot, St. Mary's High School...
Repeating Dr. Donald Griffin's experiment [for his sonar navigation experiments, he used bats which had been made to hibernate in a humidified refrigerator-TIME, May 1], I removed a bat from my belfry, chucked him in my refrigerator, rigged my oscillograph, and turned him loose...
...military aid was, at the moment, the lesser part of the battle, reported ruddy California Publisher Robert Allen Griffin of the Monterey Peninsula Herald last week, after a two months' survey of Southeast Asia for the State Department. Griffin and his six-man team thought the wobbly non-Communist governments could be well buttressed within 15 months. The cost: $60 million in economic help-to be administered by a small crew of U.S. engineers and technicians. Indo-China should get $23 million for agricultural and public-health improvements, he said. About $11 million apiece should go to Indonesia, Burma...
Even though human ears cannot hear them, the pulses of a bat's sonar are surprisingly loud. When Dr. Griffin held his microphone three or four inches from the mouth of a pulsing bat, it registered a "sound pressure" of about 60 dynes per square centimeter (the sound pressure in a boiler shop: about 25 dynes). If human ears were tuned to bat frequencies, says Dr. Griffin rather proudly, a bat flying near to one's head would sound as loud as a fighter airplane...