Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above water that they waded out to chip off samples. When they brought back their specimens to Instructor James H. Glasgow, University of Chicago graduate student, he stared at the stuff, decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey Lake Michigan's coral reef. It parallels the shore for 1,500 ft., is flat on top, evidently shaved off by Pleistocene glaciers. Mr. Glasgow ascribed it to the Silurian period-400,000,000 years ago. At that time the U. S. Midwest was covered by a broad...
Persons walking across the quadrangle between Langdell and Pierce Halls today will notice a mysterious looking tent pitched there. The tent, which was erected at daybreak this morning, contains several members of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey who are making extremely delicate calculations of the earth's magnetic declination, dip, and field strength...
...question of Hitler's role as the saviour of German capitalism, the most substantial are the "Gegenangriff," (weekly) published in Paris, and "Unsere Zeit," (monthly) published in Paris and Basel. The Neues Tagebuch also brings much of value. The latest article on Hitler and capitalism is the detailed survey of the German economic situation by E. Varga in "International Press Correspondence," of April 10, 1934, containing the conclusion: (page 567) "An analysis of the figures given by the fascist institutions themselves... shows that the situation of the bourgeoisie has improved at the expense of the workers, a fact which...
...thing to survey the veterans' problem from a cold statistical viewpoint, but quite something else to know intimately the history of hundreds of cases affected by regulations issued under this law and to observe the wholesale injustices worked thereby. Special Review boards which considered the presumptive cases would have had a light task had they been concerned only with ''injuries not even remotely connected with...
Such were the figures published last week in Paris by Professor Charles Richet, president of the French Academy of Sciences. Completing his survey of population growth, Professor Richet found Shanghai leading the world's great cities with an annual increase rate of 55 per 1,000. Tokyo and Osaka next with 44 and 33. New York's rate is only 19, but with a long headstart that city remains at the top of Professor Richet's metropolitan picture...