Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize was originated this year by the Album Board of 1943 in honor of its chairman, Dana Reed '43. Four years ago Reed was reported missing in action over Northern Italy. While at the College he held posts on the Student Council, CRIMSON, and pre-war Guardian, as well as the Album...
...Northern Visitors. Dr. Carl W. Gartlein of Cornell told the physicists how he'd taken spectrograms of auroras (northern lights) and found that some of their light comes from hydrogen ions (protons...
Scientists have known for a long time that auroras are connected with sun spots and other eruptions on the sun. They were pretty sure that particles of some sort, driven out of the sun, touch off the northern lights when they hit the earth's atmosphere. But they did not know what the particles were. Dr. Gartlein is sure that they are solar protons hitting the outer fringes of the atmosphere at about 300 miles per second. When they capture electrons from atmospheric atoms, they give off a little light. Most of the aurora's light, however, comes...
...their walls: "Death to Yankee imperialism-Viva Russia-Yesterday Bogotá, tomorrow Quito!" Beneath was scrawled the hammer & sickle. Ecuador's 2,500 Communists denied responsibility, but the government, deep in a political campaign and fearful that inflammatory Colombia might set off sparks in neighboring Ecuador, closed the northern boundary and set up special police patrols in some cities. Would there be a.revolution? "Of course," was the cynical answer of President Carlos Julio Arosema, "there has to be one. There are three candidates for President, and only one can win." None of the candidates was a Communist...
This afternoon's Varsity golf match with Brown can be the fourth straight win for Captain Sam Savidge's men. But with number one player Bill Rickenbacker out of the contest with a severely cut finger, it can also be the toughest northern match the team has yet played...