Word: janeiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at-4.30 o'clock, Professor H. E. Clifford, Gordon Mckay Professor of Electrical Engineering, will give a lecture on "Eletricity in Illumination" in the lecture hall, Room 110, Pierce Hall, Illustrating his speech with slides from the San Fransico and Rio de Janeiro expositions. The lecture will be open to the Public...
Experiments with the temperature and rainfall of Brazil showed amazing results. At Rio Janeiro Professor Massart found that the rainfall was six times that in Boston while the temperature averaged 77 degrees...
...Portugal are all in friendly rivalry to achieve the first flight 'round the world. The English pilot, Sir Keith Smith, has already flown from England to Australia; the Portuguese have great confidence in Admiral Gago Continho and Captain Sacadura Cabral, who flew last year from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro. In the U. S., Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, who is fostering the American plans, will select men who have not yet been in the limelight, though thoroughly qualified and experienced men ?to "give every one a chance," as is the Air Service...
...German gynecologist announced that a fluid prepared by Professor von Weniger, of Rio de Janeiro, tested in a Berlin sanatorium, has been found a specific for tuberculosis. The fluid contains thorium, uranium, manganese and various acids, and is said to dissolve the fatty covering of the tuberculosis bacilli. Colleagues of the sponsor are sceptical of his claims...
Minor Accomplishments. A commission of jurists to meet at Rio de Janeiro in 1925 to codify international law; a recommendation to American states to abstain from shipping alcoholic beverages to prohibition countries...