Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, in gold-frogged jacket and white-plumed hat, Sir Sidney Barton, Minister of His Britannic Majesty to the Ethiopian Court, climbed last week the steps of the Imperial Palace at Addis Ababa to deliver the terms of a peace proposal to give Italy approximately half of Ethiopia, His Excellency could scarcely have dreamed that his secret and urgent covering instructions would be published to the world a few days later in a British White Paper "by command of His Majesty George...
PROFESSOR SPALDING fills a long-felt need in his historical review of the men and events connected with music at Harvard. The object of his book, as set forth on the jacket, "is to set before the students and alumni of Harvard and also before those who may be interested in the development of music in America, the significant part which Harvard played in this progress...
...identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate him, the Embassy had Pentecostalist Baker brought to Moscow, thence to be shipped to the U. S. Wearing fur cap, fur-lined jacket and high boots, he joyously scrutinized the Kremlin, bemoaned the loss of his Bible. Said he: "I wasn't much more than a skeleton when the Russians picked me up. ... I couldn't make them understand what I was after, but they treated me all right. I didn...
...floor and making it work there was like doing a chemical experiment at the bottom of a swimming pool. Nevertheless the geologist got to work, enlisted the technical ingenuity of Dr. William Maurice Ewing of Lehigh University. It was necessary to waterproof the dynamite charges, steel-jacket the seismographs, rig electrical connections and a device for determining whether the recorders on the bottom were level. After making sure that everything was shipshape aboard the Atlantis, Dr. Field went ashore, left the survey in Dr. Ewing's hands...
Resplendent in a new Crimson jacket, the 1935-6 directory of officers and students of the University will be on sale this Friday or Saturday. It may be purchased at the Coop, Leavitt's, or Amy Brothers Book Store for 75 cents...