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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Image. Detectives working on the Lindbergh case had carefully constructed a working model of the appearance, habits and character of the criminal they sought. From the ransom letters to "Jafsie" Condon and the note left in the empty nursery on Sourland Mountain, psychiatrists had deduced that the man was German, or at least Teutonic. His English was largely phonetic and he used "gute" for "good." He also appeared to be some sort of mechanic; one ransom note had a careful working drawing of the sort of box in which he wanted the money delivered. The ladder by which he climbed...
...Institute of Technology has wondered where to put the 200-inch telescope for which a 20-ton mirror was poured last spring (TIME, April 2) and for which another mirror will be cast this autumn or winter. Last week Caltech announced that the colossus would be housed on Palomar Mountain, 80 mi. northeast of San Diego, which is neither too close to the sea (fog and clouds) nor to the desert (heat radiation...
Colorado Woman's College (Denver) in the only woman's college in the fifteen Rocky Mountain league states, an area of over two million square miles...
...present six awards are distributed as follows: one to each of the fol- lowing: the Middle Western, the North Central, the South Central, the Rocky Mountain, and the Far Western districts, and two to the South Atlantic states
...same time that two groups of undergraduates were spending the summer in Alaska with scientific and mountain climbing expeditions, a third outfit went to the opposite end of the earth in search of information on tropical diseases. The Medical School's Department of Tropical Diseases sent an expedition to the Katanga district of the Belgian Congo...