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Word: uniformities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowen points out that the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson did not work acceptably for a year and a half. He predicts that the 200-inch will eventually be fixed. The first step will be the installation of a set of small fans to keep the temperature more uniform around the mirror. The mirror's outer edge may also be insulated with aluminum foil to make it respond more slowly to temperature changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trouble on Palomar | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

This is preferable, according to the women, to the dungarees, odds and ends of wartime uniform, and other highly informal attire which predominate on most of the nation's campuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 800 Coeds Vote Harvard Student Tops in Clothes | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Young Republican Club last month blasted the party's record under the New Deal and urged that party leaders gather now to shape a uniform policy under which Republicans could operate to create a consistent platform for the party's nominee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lodge Will Speak On GOP Reform | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...library to find a system of protecting the exams from theft as well as making specific exams more easily accessible. When Lamont gets settled, perhaps the problem could be transferred there. The exams could be filed alphabetically at the reading desk. And since the exams do not come on uniform-sized paper, it would be convenient to paste the exams on cardboard sheets. Anyone who wanted to look at an exam could sign for it. The bound copies of finals ought to be kept here too, with duplicates in reserve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Exams | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...work," Q would set out for Cornwall-to a plain house, "indeed, very much like a house a child draws on a slate." There he would write his essays, or work on the new edition of the famed Oxford Book of English Verse, or supervise regattas in the uniform of a yacht club commodore, or simply play the country squire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Period Piece | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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