Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funds were allotted to the Olympic games from the general fund o the Athletic Council. In 1936 there was not enough money, and accordingly circulars were inserted in the football announcements of that year which asked Harvard alumni to contribute and promised them that any money which should be sent along with the football tickets would be sent to the Olympic fund. More than a $1,000 was collected in this...
Solar radiation is the primary cause of ionization in this upper atmosphere, and changes in sun light caused by sunrise, sunset, sunspots, eclipses, or other phenomena, affect the blankets markedly. Harvard sent expeditions to New Hampshire in 1932 and to Russia in 1936 to study the effects of solar eclipse on the ionosphere...
...last flight before settling down to aviation administration. Somewhere east of Allahabad, India, he disappeared. Eighteen months later, when he was almost forgotten, a wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon botanists, after examining weeds clinging to the wreckage, guessed that Sir Charles and his Lady Southern Cross lie in 15 fathoms of sea water close...
When the English publishers of To beg I am ashamed sent advance copies to columnists of the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, they got an unpleasant surprise: before the book was released both papers appeared with quaint English headlines, such as "A Vile Book," "A Disgraceful Book," with vague stories about its sensationalism, forced its withdrawal...
...every man, woman, and child in Harvard will give money. Now they are the humanitarians. Now Harvard shall in faith have sent an ambulance to Spain when it shall have sent one to each side...