Word: oak
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Harvard will build a new astronomical observing station, to be the most extensively equipped in the East, at the highest point between Mount Wachusett and the sea, on Oak Ridge, Harvard, Massachusetts, 27 miles northwest of Cambridge. Actual construction will begin early in the spring, according to the announcement made yesterday afternoon by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory...
...Oak Ridge Superior...
...dozen possible sites were examined by the Harvard astronomers during the past six months, but the Oak Ridge station has proved to be superior to any other in Eastern Massachusetts. The land comprises more than thirty acres of woodland, the woods being a desideratum in providing a protection against wind, dust, and stray light from neighboring villages, farmhouses, and highways. It was given to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Fuller of Belmont...
...Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Detroit, whose weekly talk over a 16-station hook-up was a Columbia religious feature last year. Father Coughlin several years ago began to be heard over the radio on time bought with money given him by worshippers at his Royal Oak. Mich, shrine to Ste. Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus. Contributions from wealthy Detroit Catholics later enabled him to buy an hour a week from Columbia. He used this time at first to praise Ste. Therese, later to denounce Communism, unemployment, employers and finally specific employers. Embarrassed by his zeal...
...spacious oak-paneled chamber of New York State's Court of Appeals at Albany, last week issued a fine distinction. The case was one of Municipal bribery, civic corruption. The decision confirmed the jailing of a citizen who had refused to tell a committee of the Legislature whether he had bribed an official of New York City. At the same time it denied that that legislative committee had power to deal similarly with any suspected citizen in its search for civic corruption. The fine distinction was between actual bribery and conspiracy to bribe. Straightway the legislative committee moved to erase...