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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvements were promised and are actually in hand, so that I suppose gradually conditions will improve. The first night I slept on a table, but now on a camp bed & a sleeping bag, as, after being perfectly sickeningly hot, it has turned icy cold. We are five in a room, but hope that will be altered as there is no room to move and until I went home and got a tin jug & basin for our room, 24 women had to wash at the kitchen sink, amongst the cooking & washing up! It really was the limit and I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Women have another advantage, according to Dr. Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Woman and Heat | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Presenting its fourth series of "memorable motion pictures," the Film Society will put on six programs this year dealing with the "classic era of the silent film," 1922-1928. Leafiets describing the series will be delivered to every room in the University tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM GROUP PRESENTS FOURTH MOVIE SERIES | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Methods in a "scientific and humanitarian program" for defense of civilian populations against submarine and air bombers were the topic of a talk by President Karl T. Compton of M. I. T. in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compton Talks on Civilian Protection | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

When he gets some more chemicals, Dawson has an idea that he will put on an exhibition in the Kirkland House Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE EATER TELLS SEVERAL SECRETS ABOUT HIS TRADE | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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