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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attacks on humans by U. S. screech owls are not uncommon. Persons who have had the experience know it is indescribably frightening. The birds have a fiercely protective instinct for their young and the onslaughts usually occur when the young are learning to fly. Some years ago a report in a scientific journal of an attack brought out dozens of letters from Oregon to Ontario to Texas recording similar episodes. One Louisiana Negro was said to have lost an eye. Policemen walking lonely beats are frequent victims...
...Colorado River can now produce 1,240,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy per year which is piped 267 miles to Los Angeles over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...
Total solar eclipses occur on the average about once every 18 months somewhere on earth. Any given spot should have one once every 360 years. The size of the shadow and hence the rapidity with which it passes a given point vary because, the earth's orbit around the sun and the moon's orbit around the earth being elliptical, the earth-sun and earth-moon distances vary. For a long eclipse, the sun must be near its maximum swing of over 94,000,000 miles (mean distance: 92,900,000 mi.) and the moon near its minimum...
...character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...
...with the vast over-application is to build another House. But even if a fairy god-father could be found to bestow his largesse at a moment's notice, adding a House hardly seems to offer a solution. For if a bad depression after the current economic boom should occur, the possibility of saddling the University with an unfilled "white elephant cannot be considered remote." Only a few years ago the College was unable to rent a considerable number of rooms in the Houses as they stand...