Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds of the Carnegie Institution of Washington stands a circular, domed building which looks like a modest astronomical observatory. It houses no telescope but a powerful atom-smasher, one of the two biggest in the world. The other is being readied at East Pittsburgh by Westinghouse Electric. Last week, after years of planning and construction, the Carnegie monster started its first test runs, hurling streams of protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms) into a quartz plate at 5,000,000 volts...
...Manhattan one day last week slid a special train full of U. S. Steel Corp. bigwigs. Hero of the day was six-foot, grey-thatched William Adolf Irvin, onetime president. The train was named the "Irvin Works Special" and it was chuffing toward Pittsburgh (as were specials from Chicago and Cleveland) for the inauguration of Big Steel's Irvin Works, "finest mill man yet has built...
...Hara said that in his day they marked A, B, C, D, E, and F, and if they had gone a little lower, he would have been an "H" man. He asserted that the grid season was just about over "or anyway will be as soon as the Pittsburgh Freshmen are paid...
...York City College's Dr. Ernest Victor Hollis, author of Philanthropic Foundations and Higher Education (Columbia University Press) told eastern university business officers in Pittsburgh this week that the trend is toward a broader base of college support. Most colleges, if they are to survive, said he, will in future have to depend on 1) tax funds or 2) numerous modest gifts from tax-evaders...
Ends, Holland, Cornell, and Young, Oklahoma. Tackles, Beinor, Notre Dame, and Wolff, Santa Clara. Guards, Heikkinen, Michigan, and Smith, Southern California. Center Aldrich, Texas Christian. Backs, O'Brien, Texas Christian, Goldberg, Pittsburgh, MacLeod, Dartmouth, and Bottari, California...