Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to reports from Pittsburgh, a cheap process of making stainless iron and steel is being tried out in a number of large mills there. The inventor is Ronald Wild, of England. He, his brother A. H. Wild, founder of a large steel concern in Sheffield, and George Pugiley, another Sheffield man, expert in the open-hearth and electric steel processes, are demonstrating the manner of production...
Name and ClassAge Ht. Wt. B. L. G. Carpenter '24 21 6.01 172 2. F. Sheffield '24 22 5.11 177 3. A. M. Wilson '26 30 6.01 178 4. J. S. Rockefeller '24 22 6.01 183 5. J. L. Miller '24 20 6.02 190 6. H. T. Kingsbury '26 19 6.02 180 7. B. M. Spock '25 20 6.04 177 S. A. D. Liadley '26 20 6.01 180 Average 20 6.01 178 C. L. R. Stoddard...
...will be devised for sending high-frequency "lightning" such as was produced in the Pittsfield laboratories by Faccioli (TIME, June 18, 1923) over an ultraviolet track. Such a combination would indeed be a fatal ray. Meanwhile, a prolific list of competing "rays" cropped up. Dr. T. F. Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other Englishmen, Prior and Raffe, have similar devices. Grammachikov, a Russian, has invented a ray that...
Although the final list of speakers has not been announced, the following men have definitely been procured; E. C. Carter '00, Bernard Clause, Henry S. Coffin '00, Bruce Curry, G. Sherwood Eddy, Kenneth Labourette, Raymond Petty, David R. Porter, J. Henry Soattergood, A. D. Sheffield '96, Fred B. Smith, Norman Thomas, H. H. Tweedr. Opportunity for individual conferences with any of these men will also be provided...
Prohibition will be debated at Sheffield and Oxford. At Oxford, the debate will be followed by speeches from G. K. Chesterton, champion British bibulophile, and by Lady Astor, so-called "British Bryan...