Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that 1400 students are due to leave soon after midyears makes this a major problem rather than an individual peeve. Large scale planning and wholesale rates will be the best solution and such a system will need University organization and bargaining power. Although this is not in the catalogue of University functions, it should help to make provisions for the belongings of the mass of undergraduates who leave for the armed forces. Many have left already, but the real exodus is a few weeks away. Prompt assumption of authority by the University by organizing a small bureau and making...
Greatest headache to the central office is the weekly purchase of perishable goods based upon the requisitions from the stewards. Certain of these commodities are bought against a standard scale based on records of tests conducted by the University...
...large enough market seems likely to present itself, a dazzlingly different type of headgear, practical and picturesque, may soon be manufactured on a grand scale by Glen O. Martin '46 of Joplin, Missouri, and Weld Hall. The new device which will soon be a must in every student's wardrobe, according to Martin, is called the Little Dandy Umbreller-Repeller, and really seems to be a marvel of simple efficiency...
Fitting snugly over the face, the contraption is sturdy enough to withstand the most ruthless attacks, and although it is as yet only on paper, Martin is laying plans for large scale manufacturing as soon as public opinion warrants such action...
...lacks the strength to open an oyster. In doing that job, a human being usually appreciates the aid of a knife. The force required was reported in Science last week by Professor Albert Moore Reese of West Virginia University. He pulled oysters and clams apart with a large spring scale attached to steel hooks inserted in notches cut in the bivalves' shells, and he found them pretty rugged...