Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday the Legal Aid Bureau closes its sixteenth consecutive year of service to members of the University and to a large number of Cambridge citizens who make use of it. The organization is now in the hands of its new officers, who were elected at a recent meeting: they are L. A. Blue 2L, president; C. T. Lane 2L, vice-president; E. A. Kniffin 2L, secretary; and J. E. Riely 2L, treasurer. These men will resume their work in the fall, and will continue in control till next April, when the organization again closes to allow the students to prepare...
...Electrical Engineering Department of the Harvard Engineering School, at the present time, is engaged in the study of the properties of electrical insulation. As is well known, electrical engineering involves the use of three types of materials: conducting materials such as copper and aluminum; magnetic materials such as iron and steel from which magnets are made; and insulating materials such as rubber paper, cotton, oils, porcelain, and other similar materials which have the property of insulating the electric circuit. It is only by employing insulating materials that electric currents can be made to flow in the electric conductors. Otherwise, they...
...high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing grounds. With underground cables, however, the situation is entirely different. In the first place, it is not permissible to carry high-voltage lines into the centers of population because of the danger. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use underground cables. The ordinary high-voltage underground cable is insulated with paper tapes which are thoroughly dried, and then impregnated with insulating oils. This paper insulation is then surrounded with a lead sheath. Such cables behave most erratically. They may be tested in the factory at four or five times their...
...time of examinations. In the present April hours there have been many courses in which were given no other than class room notices, and in some cases these were changed at various times so that unless the class was regularly attended, the student was, "out of luck", to use the words of an instructor...
These elections were heralded as a plebiscite for the present government of Italy. The idea of plebiscites is not new, but rather an integral part of dictatorial government. It was thus used by Napoleon III who in more than one way reminds one of the present rulers of Italy in spite of their enthusiasm for the older Bonaparte. What is a little novel in these recent Italian elections is the use of 'professions' and 'trades', so-called 'corporations' as the units or precincts, thus substituting a functional for a regional division of the electorate for purposes of what is termed...