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...inch quilt of top snow which covered the sitzmark-dotted schuss fields around Cambridge Monday, moved north last night to the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire and should provide optimum conditions for any college enthusiasts intending to spend the weekend on skis...
...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 with spectroscopic equipment. Oak Ridge is now the Department's headquarters for systematic photographing of the Northern...
Faced with a different task from that of Robert Jordan, the CATS have much the same difficulty. To fit these men for their jobs as administrators of occupied territories, Harvard has pioneered in finding the optimum method for accelerating language teaching...
...glimpse of the classroom work of the GI Japanese student furnishes the best idea of Harvard's "optimum method." Speaking in Japanese, a native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...
...pregnant women, he cited wartime findings that light factory work does them no harm, that they can safely work until six weeks before delivery. Dr. Eastman added that women do not need as much rest between babies as commonly supposed; a study of 38,000 mothers showed that the optimum interval is one to two years (TIME...