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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transshipped by water to eastern cities, bunkers were nearly empty. Manhattan subways reduced service to the point where trains at peak hours carried four instead of the usual three passengers per seat. When all but a few A. F. of L. and non-union mines shut down last week, less than a month's supply for the U. S. remained aboveground, and much of that was hoarded by big users. Madam Secretary squeaked in Washington: "It is a very delicate and difficult situation...
...first year has failed to make a perceptible dent on the shining armor of Harvard indifference to "unifying principles." The program has consisted of four parts: the Bliss Prize examinations; public lectures on aspects of American History; open lectures in the Houses and Union; and weekly discussion groups. Less than twenty men took the prize examinations. The public lectures were heavily attended, but largely by Cambridge ladies in search of culture. The open House lectures, aided by intriguing titles and movies, often drew more than a hundred undergraduates. But at the weekly discussion groups, the core of the plan, where...
...whole group (out of college one to eight years), less than half the men and about a third of the women were married. After eight years out, a quarter of the men were still bachelors, half the women still spinsters...
...engine has 24 cylinders ar ranged in four banks like a double-V. Supercharged and built for streamlining into wings and fuselages, it develops 2,400 h.p., weighs less than a pound per horse power.† Its constant-speed propeller, largest ever built in the U. S., is geared to revolve at lower speed than the engine (because propellers lose efficiency at high speeds). Probable use of the new powerplant: to propel bombers faster than bombers have ever been driven before...
...less Freshmen will receive acceptance-notices today than did last year, because of the preference for upperclassmen. The number of Yardling applications is almost identical with the figure for the class of 1941. The total of 347 unsuccessful applications is the same as last year...