Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
...Charles Thomson Rees Wilson of Cambridge University invented a "cloud chamber" in which tracks made by sub-atomic particles could be seen. At about the same time Hans Geiger, now of the University of Tubingen, invented a cylindrical "counter" which crackles every time a particle enters it. Physicists use both devices, alone or together, to record the presence of and identify cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, photons, electrons, protons, positrons, neutrons...
...summer vacation any better reasons for its advancement than have been offered in the past weeks, the only possible influence that one can draw from last night's procrastination is that the Team is afraid of an adverse vote in the Council. For if the Team, and the sub-committee of the Council which investigated the problem, are convinced that the case for advancement is watertight, what possible reason is there for temporizing until next year, unless it be that the Team is afraid to run the gamut of the Council vote...
Acting on a joint report from its own sub-committee and a swimming team committee, the Student Council last night voted to defer until 1937-38 recommendations pro or con on the status of swimming at Harvard...
...they have been or will be purchased and thawed out for use by big manufacturers of mayonnaise, macaroni, pastry, candy and ice cream. Frozen eggs differ from cold-storage eggs in that they are packed in bulk, not in the shell, are not merely chilled but actually frozen at sub-zero temperatures and may thus be preserved for from one to two years, whereas cold-storage eggs are usually kept not more than six months. Last week frozen eggs became a fullfledged commodity in the Midwest when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, No. 1 U. S. headquarters for egg speculation, admitted...