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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor since origin of the publication in the fall of '46, Miss Tinker retires with the rest of the previous senior executive board. Signature was formerly titled Radditudes, and exclusively served 'Cliffedwellers. Last fall, however, it assumed its present name when it expanded to include the College...
...continually bombard the earth with radio waves. No one knows much about these tuneless, codeless, cosmic broadcasts, but the National Bureau of Standards hopes to find out more. Last week, at Sterling, Va., 40 miles from Washington, Standards was building a radio observatory to study the waves and their origin. In charge of the observatory is young (35) Grote Reber, who broke into radio astronomy by developing a hobby...
Last week, Freiburg again rated headlines. The South Baden State Chancellory, after a thorough investigation of the origin of the Freiburg bombing, had decided to make public its findings, "regardless of how frightful and humiliating." The Chancellory's report said...
Another pre-war tradition reappeared last night with the opening lecture in the Charles Eliot Norton series on the History of Art. Professor Erwin Pandofsky of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study spoke on "Early Flemish Art: Its Origin and Character" in the Fogg Large Room...
Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...