Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorson admitted that prospects have been better in former years, but explains this fact by the rise in popularity of squash in other colleges. In past years it was easy for Harvard, the main exponent of squash, to dominate the scene, but now because of squash's greater popularity the good players are being more evenly distributed among the colleges...
...declared that his reorganizing was completed,"in the main any way," and that FCC was now "going to town." First sally toward town came this week-the opening of the Commission's radio monopoly hearings...
Reason for brisk interest in the motor truck show was the refinement of Diesel power (hitherto a luxury of heavy duty trucking), for 1½ to 3-ton trucks. Main advantages of Diesel power are that it needs no carburetion, no spark plugs, no electric ignition system (sources of 90% of gasoline motor troubles), gets more power and mileage out of low-grade cheap fuel oil than gasoline motors get out of premium gasoline...
...organ recital, open to the public without charge, will be given at the Harvard Germanic Museum by Ludwig Theis, organist of St. Peter's Church, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, at 8:15 o'clock tonight...
With the Rhine thus linked to the Baltic, next job will be to bring Ludwig's Rhine-Main-Danube canal up to date. Now it is used chiefly by canoeists, but by 1945 it is expected to be able to accommodate 1,200-ton lighters. Moving cheaply from Greater Germany down into the Danube and Balkan countries, these are expected to extend German influence and manufactured goods markets, return laden with ore, cereals and oil to fill the German need for raw materials...