Word: townships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agassiz Oak Ride station was established in 1932 in the midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. It holds many of the instruments removed from Summer House Hill when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location too poor for optimum conditions for astronomical observations. This station contains a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch reflector, and a 61 inch telescope, the largest east of Ohio. The "Ridge" is now headquarters for Harvard's surveys of the Northern skies. The Harvard seismographic equipment is also at the Agassiz...
...Dallas (pop. 1,685), a woman died after being bitten by a rabid fox. All over a 19-county area, sick and crazy foxes have been seen charging out oi the woods, snapping wildly. In Whitemarsh township, a woman beat one off with a handbag. Near Devon, a boy blew a hawk-call and was charged by three of the beasts. Within the city limits of Philadelphia itself, a rabid fox was killed after it attacked three people...
Born: Maumee Township, Ind. 1913. Educated: West Point ('37), Cornell (M.S. in engineering...
...topographic quadrangle "Newton, 111.," edition of 1943, and an elementary knowledge of map reading, it should not have taken more than three minutes to determine that "latitude 38 degrees, 50 minutes, 21 seconds and longitude 88 degrees, 9 minutes, 33 seconds" was located near the center of Section 25, Township 5 North Range 9 E, 100 feet south of an east-west road; about 4,000 feet east of the Mt. Olive Church...
...university is dependent on outside help, which first came from the American High Commission, and is now coming from the Berlin Township. There is no racial discrimination in the university, which is literally student-run. Students serve on the executive, the senate, the economic administration boards, and on disciplinary tribunals and boards of admission...