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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Electric Co.'s laboratories in Schenectady last week demonstrated (see cut, p. 23) a tiny magnet, about the size of a pellet of buckshot, holding aloft a five pound flatiron. The magnet weighs about one-sixteenth of an ounce. The maximum ratio of lifted load to magnet weight is 1,500 to i, highest in the annals of engineering. Thus General Electric's mighty mite is the most powerful permanent magnet on record...
...writer in his spare time (From Nudity to Raiment), Hiler was also a great cafe sitter with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. He knew the Left Bank like the bottom of his glass. In 1934, when the dollar fell so low that a whiskey neat cost 72? in Paris, Hiler announced, "The position is untenable," and started home...
...shakeup in the lineup has occurred in the heavier weights. It was caused by the fact that lanky "Bunny" Barnes has gained about ten pounds, throwing him out of the 155 pound class to wrestle in a heavier weight. Pete Illman, captain of his freshman team, will fill the weight Barnes has left. Bill Daughaday defeated Barnes in a trial match and Barnes defeated Tudor Gardiner which leaves the 165 and 175 pound weights to be decided between Barnes and Daughaday. Boston will as usual wrestle unlimited, with Gardiner as alternate...
...change leaves the team perhaps one of the most perfectly balanced teams that Harvard has over had. Starting with the 121 pound weight through to the heaviest class, the team promises to present an impressive record at the end of the year...
...varsity as it faces the Brown freshman team. Outstanding wrestler on the team is Thomas, a yardling who hails from Oklahoma. In his last match he succeeded in pinning his man as he led the team to a victory over Tufts. He wrestles 145. Redmon will take the 121 pound class, Blaine at 128, Stone in the 136 pound weight, Miles at 155, Tine entering the 165 pound weight, Robbins in the 175, and Aldrich in the top weight will make up the other members of the team...