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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russell '14, B. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, C. W. Killam, professor of Architecture K. T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a group consisting of members of the Cambridge School Board, made an inspection tour Sunday afternoon of the million-dollar Rindge Technical School which has been recently completed...
Russia was then in the early stages of her Five-Year Plan which came to its end this week (see above). She wanted to mechanize ten million acres of Soviet farm land. Out in Montana was Thomas Donald Campbell, mechanized-farming pioneer. True, his Campbell Farming Corp. "operates" only 95,000 acres, which look small beside ten million acres, but the Soviet Government decided that Mr. & Mrs. Campbell were people to honor. They were whisked to Moscow. Farmer Campbell energetically advised the Soviet Grain Trust. After that the fun began. In 1932 Mr. Campbell wrote about it in Russia: Market...
...Laureate, The study of cosmic rays is "a whining brat which knows no law, is against the government, and has no real friend except his mother," began Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. At the platform's left stood two glistening spheres on stark pedestals, capable of generating a million & a half volts of artificial lightning. From the shadows glowered the vast skeleton of a plaster dinosaur. All along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic rays...
...heavier elements, or 2) heavy star material burning to nothing. Professor Russell prefers the synthesis theory, for burning "would not happen except at temperatures of many billions of degrees," whereas "heat should be produced [by atomic synthesis] fast enough to keep the stars shining at temperatures of about twenty million degrees," the apparent temperature of most stars...
...estimate the Earth's outer crust as 40 mi. thick in continental areas (thicker under seas); the next shell 1,800 mi. thick, composed of glassy rock more rigid than steel; the core a ball of molten iron 7,000 mi. in diameter, under 15 to 50 million pounds pressure per square inch...