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...Bowditch men finish their work, Seabees will build six 75-ft. steel towers on the little islands around Bikini to support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...
Internationalism & Lumbago. Few presidents have sunk their roots deeper or let their branches spread so wide. During the 22 years of the Neilson era, Smith became the biggest women's college in the world, and one of the most prestigious in the U.S. Neilson believed in educational equality for women, but he scorned the notion that college should 36 a trade school for girls...
...barely dry on the 1934 Corporate Bankruptcy Act when depression-sunk U.S. railroads rushed into Federal Court to be bailed out. Most of them, representing investments of $4 billion and more than 40,000 miles of track, are still in court...
...young Stonewall Jackson, speaking in a high, piping voice. Here is Cavalry General Stuart, mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, brought to Richmond to die in a city too poor and gloomy to pay him the proper last respects. Here is Raphael Semmes, dashing captain of the Alabama (which was sunk by the Kearsarge in one of the war's great naval fights), who for a few days raised Richmond's flagging spirits. Here is General Robert E. Lee, besieged by Southern belles who had been criticized for going to dances in wartime. Said Lee: "Go, my dears...
Three of Harvard's seven goals were registered by Andrews, working the center slot; Cowan at right defense sunk two and Tilghman and Eaton, right wing and center, racked up one apiece. For the Crusaders, Bossiere, who played most of the game at center, scored four goals and spent the rest of the time sending the Harvard defense men into icy tailspins...