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Harvard's biggest splurge--the first Regatta Weekend in the College's history, a function comparable to Yald's Derby Day or Pennsylvania's Skimmer Day--will begin this afternoon and roll straight through till Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1st Regatta Weekend Begins Today; Dances, Bacchanalia Attract 2,000 | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

Heads on a Skimmer. Each year the company scours U.S. colleges for their ablest men, lures about 350, has gradually moved its requirements so high that Greenewalt quips: "If we had had the same system then, I couldn't have got in." Beginners' pay is low ($317 a month for a B.S., $375 for an M.S.), but advancement can be fast. Once a man breaks ahead of his average age & salary group, his name will pop up on a "skimmer chart" which Greenewalt constantly consults. That man is then moved around departments to broaden his experience. Greenewalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Wizards of Wilmington | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...door to all kinds of chemical processes, (e.g., urea, long-chain alcohols), won 18 patents, most of them used by Du Pont. It was Greenewalt's work on nylon-the biggest treasure yet turned up in Du Pont test tubes-which put him far up on the skimmer chart. Du Pont's brilliant scientist, Dr. Wallace Carothers, first materialized the nylon fiber by finding a way to simulate the long-chain molecules found naturally in silk. But it was Greenewalt's patient five-year nursing, from test tube to pilot plant, that helped bring nylon to mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Wizards of Wilmington | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...Skimmer. In Tacoma, Wash., Mr. & Mrs. Clark G. Seabloom returned home to find their cottage ransacked, but nothing missing except the cream from the tops of four bottles of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's swimming team, as even the most indifferent skimmer of the sports pages may gather, is a pretty good one. The Crimson tankmen haven't dropped a meet in exactly 28 conteats over a period of almost three years, and on the evening in March 1937, when they started their string, they also shattered Yale's 13-year, 163-meet domination of Eastern aquatic competition...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

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