Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Astronomy Department is the only one in the University which can claim as many as three more or less distant possessions. Nearest of these is Oak Ridge Observatory, established in 1932 in the midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. Oak Ridge's facilities, many of which were moved from Cambridge when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location not sufficiently free from dust and artificial lights to permit optimum conditions for astronomical observation, includes a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch refleflctor, and a 61 inch telescope...
...under actual forest conditions at all seasons of the year. The area around Petersham, Massachusetts, where the forest is located, has varied and interesting conditions of forest cover, soil, and topography Containing a great number of trees species--the beech, birches and maples of the northern zone and the oak, hickory, and chestnut of the central zone, this is an ideal location for Harvard's graduate school of Forestry. Silviculture studies in progress at Petersham are aimed at profitable methods or scientific care of handling a forest as a perpetual crop. The natural sciences, chemistry and physics are combined...
...others: Clinton Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island...
Hiroshima was only one laboratory for studying the biological implications of the Atomic Age. The U.S. center would be Oak Ridge, where the U.S. Public Health Service is setting up an elaborate research program. Its principal object: to determine the effect of the new radiations on living cells, including reproductive cells. Out of its work might come refutation (or confirmation) of Dr. Muller's gloomy prophecies...
Planned Economy. In Oak Park, Ill., Ellis Denney proposed that the town buy parking meters to get money to buy parking lots to eliminate parking meters...