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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paulo, Brazil, a street car crashed headlong into a circus elephant. The front of the car was smashed, the elephant lay unconscious. For two hours he held up traffic, while his mate stood by. trumpeted, allowed no one to approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...gyroscopic airplane stabilizer consists of two wheels rotating, one vertically, the other horizontally. A wind-driven electric motor gives them energy. If the airplane tilts up, down or sideways, it in effect moves around the stabilizer. When it does so, it makes electrical contacts which act through electromagnets to return the machine to level keel and original direction, by mechanically activating the ailerons, rudder and elevator, all together or separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gyroscopic Stabilizer | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...great degree of truth in Dr. Bell's statement as to the incompetency of the small college in getting adequate teachers. It it is not possible to uproot their physical plants and transfer them to the larger universities, it still remains possible to form a closer connection between the two types by exchanging professors and giving the larger institutions a guiding influence in the administration of the smaller colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO THE COUNTRY | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...first University debate with Radcliffe College in 11 years will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe. The two teams will speak in the spilt team form, in which two members of each team are on affirmative and negative sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD-RADCLIFFE TO JOIN IN MIXED DEBATE | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...rest of the Harvard menagerie, the nips of a playful little terrier, the remarks of a parrot, and the hoots of two owls have their own select circles of admirers; so none are ever completely overlooked, even in the greatest of confusions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Brave Parietal Regulations Out of Countenance With Bewildering Zoological Exhibitions | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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