Word: overlappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misunderstanding has arisen since the Buckley Fund and Cambridge Aid, which have been listed separately in the catalogue, overlap each other. Each year a certain sum of money is alloted from the Buckley Fund to Cambridge Aid. Steps have been taken to show the relation clearly between the two grants; and the new scholarship catalogue bears them as the Cambridge Buckley fund and the Buckley Scholarships...
...Dental School. Its province will be trifold; to promote important dental research; to act as a clearing house for such of that research as is important to other fields; and to provide official contacts through which the Dental School can readily get assistance for its research problems that overlap the other departments...
...telescope, which cost $200,000, is one inch larger than that at Bloemfontein, South Africa, where Harvard has an observing station to cover the southern sky. This African telescope will be used to check results with the Oak Ridge station, also, as their fields overlap...
...animals other than primates have their eyes in the front of their faces (the young human fetus also has its eyes at the sides of its head). Because their visual fields do not overlap, they do not have binocular vision. The visual fields of hares and rabbits overlap behind their narrow heads, an essential for such hunted creatures. But they do not have stereoscopic vision. Their brains are insufficiently developed for that refinement...
...Orleans, first of the fourth class of five Treaty cruisers, differs little in length, beam or speed (32 1/2 knots) from her immediate predecessors. But she was built with 10% more electrical welding on her hull than the Indianapolis. Her butt straps (where plates overlap) were welded, thus saving precious weight in rivets. Weight saved was put into armor plate. The Indianapolis is armored only in vital spots. The New Orleans, paragon of her group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation...