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...philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin, and many basic discoveries in theoretical sciences were Russian products. A few of these claims have shreds of truth to them; most are the wildest fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cut to Pattern | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...with an actor's sense of staging, he brought literature to life for thousands of students. When the announcement went up for one of his readings, students would line the streets outside his hall. Then Copey would enter, order the doors to be locked, spend minutes adjusting his lamp, listen disdainfully for the audience to swallow its coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings became a Harvard institution-long after Copey began to feel old ("Do you suppose I am ever to be well again? You must remember that I am 63 . . ."), and long after he retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Shining Faces | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Control of the backboards in a typical early-season game was the magic lamp for Eliot, as the score see-sawed never more than four points either way. The Adams squad was more coordinated and shot better, but center Bob Crichton and guards Charlie Hugo and Joe Walsh of Eliot kept them to one shot at a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Win Over Puritans In Basketball | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...Mary and the Lamp Forover" is a new number to be introduced tonight. Written especially for the Band by Edward Ballantine '07, Associate Professor of Music, emeritus, the novelty number is in the style of Sousa. Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Plays in 'Drumbeats' Tonight | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

Local traders are missing no opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and envelop themselves in the traditional Christmas baubles, in order to catch undergraduate trade before the December 19 rush decimates the cash-bearing population. To set the pace, the city of Cambridge has already decorated its lamp posts. Yesterday workers finished wrapping the poles with strands of laurel and aluminum, and hung the final pine wreath on top. The cost of this decoration is met by the city with the help of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Spirit Catches Square; Merchants Finish Holiday Trim Job | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

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