Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four men were taken from the Freshman second crew and four from the third Varsity this year; three of the oarsmen, A. Barr Comstock '40, stroke, John B. Reece '41, number seven, and Alexander H. Whitman '41, number five, were in the "Comby crew" last year, and pulled the same cars on the Third this year...
...automatic radio station, completed only two weeks ago, is the first device of its kind in the world. Built in a small wire-closed enclosure behind the main buildings, the station consists of a number of complicated (instruments which constantly check the weather conditions and send out radio signals to a receiving set on the top of the Observatory tower. When received on the tower, the signals are transmitted up on graphs, so that a permanent written record is available for government and research stations. The only thing Professor Brooks has to do is to see that the sending apparatus...
Sargent claimed the large number of Prep school tutees was due largely to personal wealth. "A great many have no interest in getting a college education but go through the four years just to please their parents, who regard college in the same light as a finishing school," he says...
...Probably for three ships. Service regulations forbid announcement of the number of planes in any U. S. order...
...stories will not add much to Author Weidman's strong reputation with friendly readers. But they should be good medicine for his noisy, self-appointed censors. The majority deal with the Manhattan East Siders he grew up with, including a few embryo Harry Bogens, but a good number show that Author Weidman's range, human and geographical, goes well beyond the East Side, that his sympathies can be as warm as his satire is cold...