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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admitted that scholasticism is inevitably associated with a gloomy atmosphere, still there is no adequate reason why students should be deprived of sufficient oxygen to maintain their health and comfort. To be cruclly specific--the air in certain parts of Widener Library, notably the upper and lower reading rooms, is a thing of wonder: it gives rise to thoughts concerning medieval dungeons, and suspicions to the effect that ventilating systems sometimes do everything but ventilate. With all the clever conceits of modern architecture one might reasonably suppose that a pure environment could be provided for those whose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREATHLESS MOMENTS | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

...between 16 and 48 drops per quart. The proportions of other ingredients remain about constant: three parts of distilled water to two parts of alcohol (pour the water into the alcohol, not vice versa). Shake with great patience. Add glycerine by the teaspoonful to suit the taste. Some authorities maintain that the best blends are obtained by diluting the essence in a small quantity of alcohol before adding it to the whole "batch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Versatile Researcher | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...colonel is credited with saying that "aircraft will one day maintain the peace of the world." He will show tonight the possibilities opened up by aviation for a war of obliteration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIRCRAFT WILL WREAK UNTOLD HORRORS IN WAR | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Professor Mather of the University Department of Physiography will maintain that the two branches of thought are easily reconcilable Professor Mather has acquired recognition as a modernist bu his contention that the theory of evolution is not contrary to the Book of Genesis but explains it more fully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR MATHER TO TAKE UP DR> STRATION ON EVOLUTION | 11/17/1926 | See Source »

...opponents of the rebate plan maintain that the Republicans are trying to avoid tax reduction at present in order to make a national issue out of it in 1928. They claim that a tax rebate is not practicable and not sufficient when the government can reduce the whole income tax ratio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS TO WRANGLE TAX REBATE QUESTION | 11/11/1926 | See Source »

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