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While the 15-inch refractor remains, though merely as a monument to the past, the meridian circle equipment has long gathered dust in an obscure store-room. In the meantime, astronomic investigation at the University, with the Summer House Hill establishment as control center, has assumed Herculean proportions, its activities diversified, its observation posts so scattered over the face of the earth that it may truly be said, "The stars never shine without the eye of Harvard upon them...
Doctor of Laws: Bradley Dewey '08, former Rubber Director of the War Production Board: President of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company in Cambridge: "A Cambridge industrialist whose Herculean labors in a federal office gave us the rubber on which we now roll to victory...
...Like Fighting Lady, the Steichen-edited Power in the Pacific is a superb example of the technical achievements of modern photography. His chief contribution is the incredible enlargements, which lost nothing in the blowing-up process. Working with a picked staff of technicians, Steichen had the negatives enlarged to Herculean proportions, capturing minute details with great clarity. Example: a huge shot of carefree, clean-cut Navy fledglings, coming from mess...
...this came about because of one Anton Jankowski, a Herculean (6 ft. 2 in., 250 lb.) employe of Muskegon's (Mich.) Norge Division of Borg-Warner (plane parts, vacuum pumps, valves). Last November, the War Department ordered Norge to cut back production of gun mounts. This reduced the piecework earnings of its employes. The U.A.W.A.F. of L. promptly protested, but agreed to go along if the company would clamp down on Jankowski. The union had al ready expelled Jankowski for nonpayment of dues. Now the union claimed that his great strength enabled him to work too fast. Thereby...
Faith always that we will win this herculean struggle ... is a prime requisite of 130,000,000 Americans. But individual character, individual ability to say "No" to the black-market scavenger, the political pork-barrel, the easy money which may produce inflation and lose the war for us-seems utterly basic...