Word: haling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the sun's rays, speeding 93,000,000 mi. in eight minutes to Pasadena, Calif., darted last week into the world's most powerful sun-ray concentrator. Designed by Astronomer George Ellery Hale of Mt. Wilson Observatory, this "sun furnace" is 15 ft. long, has more than 30 lenses. When the rays reached the final focussing point, they were hot enough to melt a steel wire like an icicle in a frying...
Commercial utilization of sunshine, however, is not the same thing as using sunshine to produce high temperatures for scientific research. Hottest heats obtained by any means have been less than 5,000° C. The California Institute of Technology, working with Dr. Hale's new sun furnace, expects to coax from it 6,000°-roughly the surface temperature of the sun itself...
...officers of the Wellesley club, who will be at Phillips Brooks House during the trials, are as follows: Marian Jobcon '34, president; Barbara Jacobs '34, Vice-president; Anna Hale '34, business manager; Bernice Libman '36, secretary; Jane Taylor '35, treasurer...
Half-mile broad comp race: First heat, Albert G. Hale '36 (3:57 1-2); P. H. Lombard '37; second heat, W. R. Roemer '37 (3:45); Harrison D. Smith...
...While almost every schoolchild in Pennsylvania knows much about Captain Miles Standish and Captain John Smith, not one in thousands knows anything about the able Swedish Governor who established the first permanent seat of Government in Pennsylvania and did it before William Penn was born." Thus writes C. Hale Sipe, lawyer-historian-lecturer of Butler, Pa. The able Swede was an adipose lieutenant-colonel named Johann Printz who arrived in New Sweden in 1642, built a state house which existed for 160 years in what is now Pennsylvania. Johann Printz is only one of many historical characters for whose recognition...