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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost any of Britain's past crowned heads would have admired the scene at Portsmouth...
Horse & Buggy Practice. So rapid has been the scientific progress of medicine that a great number of physicians are practicing "horse and buggy" medicine according to the rules of the past generation at the expense of "the defenceless sick." Dr. Bernheim's remedy: medical licenses should be granted not for life but for periods of five years. This would allow young graduates a five-year trial period in which to find themselves, would make it necessary for specialists to secure separate licenses to work in their chosen fields. Since they would have to take periodical examinations, doctors would find...
NACA's research director, Dr. George William Lewis, was proudest of a new wing developed during the past year. Approximately one-half the drag, i.e., the speed-killing characteristic, of the modern airplane is caused by its wings. Most of the wing drag is caused by air friction along the surface which, as the plane speeds through the air, changes from a smooth or laminar flow near the leading edge to a tumbling, churning turbulence farther back on the wing...
Strawinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882. He has lived in Paris during the past twenty years. Among his best known works are "L'Oiseau de Feu," "Petrouchka," "Le sacre du Printemps," "L'Histoire du Soldat," "Oedipus Rex," and "Symphonie de Psaumes...
Although the majority of the breaks went to the Crimson, the Blue crashed through with two mild upsets when Ben Holderness sprinted past Ros Brayton to the tape for a 4:28.2 mile, and when Sophomore Al Shapleigh showed his heels to Gene Clark as he won the two-mile run in the excellent time...