Word: typing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think I am thus to be classified) could not fail to recognize that for certain individuals other institutions of higher education might be better. It is of great importance to this country that this varied choice continue to be offered to the student fresh from school. Each type of institution must proceed along its own particular path of development without trying to copy another...
...McWhiney is definitely the superior sort of male who regards all women as merely biological instruments. He is the type, too, who is apt to dismiss with a pitying smile, the idea that women may be vitally interested in such serious subjects as politics, finance, international affairs...
Competition is keen in this type of pulp, but it is a very friendly sort of competing. The editors concerned are really pals- probably because they are first fans, and then editors. An interesting item in this competition concerns my own editorial work in Science Fiction. At the age of 17, when I first came into charge of Wonder Stories, one of my competitors, T. O'Conor Sloane of Amazing Stories...
Most skippers like to have two weeks or more to get acquainted with strange winds and tides. Skipper Nichols, however, arriving in Finland just a few days before the races started, was not dismayed. He had been sailing boats for almost 50 years-had handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once...
...Pittsburgh last week the Westinghouse laboratories announced a new type of lightning recorder. Called a "fulchronograph," it gives a complete picture of a lightning stroke's intensity, from start to finish. Essential feature is a wheel with 400 iron fins on its rim, revolving at 3,400 r.p.m. A lightning arrester no bigger than a quart-size fruit jar receives the bolt, discharges it harmlessly through its coils. In these coils the lightning sets up a varying magnetic field in which the fulchronograph wheel spins. Each iron fin of the fulchronograph is magnetized according to the intensity...