Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Hall Effect, the Nernst Effect, etc., in Soft Iron." Professor Hall, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society will hold its second annual international aviation meet at the Harvard Aviation Field, Atlantic, from August 26 to September 4. Plans are now being drawn for a new grand stand, and the tent hangars will be replaced by wooden or corrugated iron ones. The parking spaces for automobiles will be permanently fenced in, and the start greatly improved over its condition of last year...
...intercollegiate glider meet to be held at the Aviation Field, for four days, beginning May 3, under the auspices of the Harvard Areonautical Society. The Contest Committee has designed a unique artificial slope from which the flights will start. The slope will be movable, being mounted on 10-inch iron wheels, but will be blocked up previous to each day's events, facing the direction of the wind and in the spot most favorable for the contests. A car running on a six foot track will carry the gliders to the top. The glider will start from...
...Dolomites are not as dangerous as the Swiss snow-clad mountains. In the Tyrol they are from 10,000 to 12,000 feet high, and with one exception have a rocky surface. The climbing party is equipped with a rope and iron-nailed shoes. At 3 o'clock in the morning they start out and climb till noon. This is usually long enough to scale a mountain in the Tyrol. Before starting, the sky line is scanned closely. Clouds from the Italian horizon are a bad omen. Not until the clouds have parted from the mountain peaks, do the natives...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "A Visit to the Iron Mines of Gellivare and Kiruna, Lapland, Sweden." (Illustrated.) Professor Wolff. "Recent Meteorological Text-Books." Professor Ward. Mineralogical Lecture Room...