Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revised one historical point: the Greer, which the U.S. public had believed attacked by a U-boat without provocation, was in fact attacked while she was dogging a submarine. The destroyer was heading for Iceland with mail, passengers and freight, he wrote, when a British patrol plane reported a sub ten miles dead ahead...
...liveliest of the 10 committees and sub-committees that carry on the work of PBH is the Speakers' Committee which sponsored several talks in the West End House last year, along with some 150 others in high schools and settlement houses on subjects ranging from public health (by Med School students) to life in the Orient (by an undergraduate from Japan). Magicians, clowns, musicians, and other entertainers recruited by the Speakers' Committee filled the entertainment side of the ledger...
Members of the Council sub-committee are Harvey, Thomas Matters '42 and John A. Holabird, Jr. '42, from Lowell House; Eugene Wulsin '43, of Eliot; William McN. Rand, Jr. '43, Adams; Joseph C. Scott '43, Leverett Donald H. Shaw '43, Kirkland; Walter F. Rogers, Jr. '43, Dunster; and John R. Abbot '43, Winthrop...
...rays can be imagined as streams of infinitesimal sub-atomic particles. They are similar to radium rays and they work in exactly the same way to destroy living cells. They are created when a powerful electric current-i.e., a stream of electrons -jumps through a vacuum tube and hits a "target,", usually a piece of tungsten. The electrons batter from the tungsten a secondary stream of chargeless particles, X-rays, whose wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of ultraviolet light and almost as short as those of radium's gamma rays. The shorter waves...
...good a player to sit on the bench for most of the game, which is what he has been doing as substitute for ironman Chub Peabody. Row, who has been coming up fast after a two-year absence from the gridiron, will probably see more action as sub for Dick Pfister...