Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief of Air Corps, and his assistant, Brigadier General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (in command of the maneuvers) set the armada's schedule back 24 hr. Particularly was this irksome to Secretary Davison. His guest and fellow-observer at the Dayton concentration was his fellow-Yaleman, close friend and sub-cabinet colleague and rival, David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Last year Secretary Ingalls put on a whopping good show over New York City and the Eastern coast, fixed the Navy's air service firmly in the public mind (TIME, May 19, 1930). This year...
...James's work is not quite the sort which wins a Nobel Prize in physics nowadays. The Nobel tendency in recent years has been to reward workers with the sub-atomic-X-ray effects (Taman, Compton), wave mechanics (de Broglie), electron count (Millikan), atomic structure (Bohr), quantum hypothesis (Planck), forces (Einstein). Sir James has the mathematical baggage and creative imagination requisite for joining that group. But he applies himself to descriptions of the universe and its relatively minute stellar components. It was for that work that the Franklin Institute deemed him worthy of U. S. Physics' top medal...
...least the possibility that friendships arising out of such contacts would do much towards preventing individuals from being or becoming maladjusted, and even more towards converting the grind, the weir, the book-worm, and the recluse into normal social animals, with an interest in current events, the Nugget, Smith sub-suffragettes, and the Harvard game in addition to their intellectual concerns...
...remaining places in the competition go to Rollin McCulloch Gallagher '34, of Milton, who will be sub-chairman of the Regatta Committee, and to William Gundry Chase '34, of New York, and Regers Vaughan. Scudder '34, of St. Louis, who will be members of the Regatta Committee...
...friendship of two young officers, Sub-Lieutenant Westley of the British Navy, and Karl von Malheim, holding a similar post in the German navy, carries the story-thread from a night club in Kiel shortly before the war to the bridge of a British cruiser in the Battle of Jutland, and thence to the post-war office of a steel magnate. Inheriting their respective fathers' businesses, these two represent the curious and tense struggle between the cooperation of systematically-conducted navies and the individualistic philosophy of modern business. In the last act the two forces come to grips...