Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams House, a group will discuss "Jefferson's Brand of Democracy" at 7:15 o'clock, while Benjamin Fletcher Wright, assistant professor of Government, will speak on "Jefferson's Americanism" at Leverett House at 7 o'clock. George Parker Winship has chosen as his subject, "Practice and Theory in Early Harvard," which will be discussed at Kirkland at 6 o'clock...
...Francisco has not yet heard from most of its European exhibitors. But Italy, War II's No. 1 neutral, obviously expects to fence-sit for at least another month. Already in the U. S. are the Italian experts who will re-crate the group of Renaissance masterpieces Italy sent to the Golden Gate, escort it back across the Atlantic...
...starry event takes place this week in smoky Pittsburgh-the formal dedication and opening to the public of the $1,100,000 Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. This week Pittsburgh becomes the fifth of that select group of U. S. cities -Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles-whose inhabitants can go stargazing indoors.* Boss of the Buhl Planetarium is deep-voiced James Stokley (pronounced "Stokely"), generally considered the most inventive of planetarium showmen, who last spring left a job at the Pels Planetarium in Philadelphia to take charge in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...last week NBC-RCA television engineers demonstrated that not all of these dreams are pipe dreams. In a United Airliner equipped with a television receiver and two-way radiophone, an invited group flew from Newark Airport to Washington-some 200 miles away from NBC-RCA's Empire State Building transmitter, W2XBS, which has a normal "eyeline" range of 50 miles. Over Washington the ship started to climb. At 21,600 feet, with the passengers sucking oxygen and the windows curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical...
...long, however, did Breeze remain obscure. In March 1938 Breeze elected two other directors, representatives of a Wall Street group, headed by Securities Salesman John J. Bergen, which had sold Breeze common stock to the public. In August 1938, SEC slapped down a stop order, charged that Breeze had overstated the value of its patents and its future sales prospects, implied that such rapid expansion should inspire conservatism in the corporation's statement of its worth. After subsequent amendments, the order was lifted...