Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About eighty percent of the failures in high voltage power systems are due to lightning strokes. A lightning stroke results from a gradual storage of electricity in the clouds and its subsequent sudden release. In order to simulate lightning strokes in the laboratory the department has constructed a surge generator capable of delivering electrical impulses of 180,000 volts for only a few millionths of a second...
Petitions circulated by A. F. of L. representatives in order to indicate undergraduate interest in the plan to improve working conditions in the dining halls have been signed by 100 students...
...have pondered over the questions: "Just when is new old?" but it offers its architectural symmetry(?) as an obstacle to the earnest undergraduate. Approaching the west basement stairway from the corner where traffic is to be dredged, the student, in a hurry of course, finds two routes possible in order to get to the stairway...
Because it was felt that students may not fully realize that whatever they did when enrolled in the University either in Cambridge, or Boston or elsewhere, reflected on Harvard, and "in order to find out just how much which could be definitely judged favorable or unfavorable publicity has been in the metropolitan newspapers in the last two years," a special committee was picked by the Council to make a factual report on the subject...
...meeting it had been decided that Durant should take the matter under advisement in order to present a concrete plan Monday or Tuesday...