Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rejecting the Harvard Engineering Society's proposition that they substitute Sears Roebuck (advt.) vacuum cleaners for the traditional brooms, the Crimson curlers under the leadership of Caspar W. Berger are embarking on a series of strenuous secret practice sessions in an unused wing of Widener in preparation for Saturday, when they cross brooms with a veteran Kendal Home for the aged aggregation...
Five years ago measurements made in a mile-long vacuum tube in California showed apparent fluctuations in the speed of light up to 12 mi. per sec. Physicists promptly raised a hue & cry, which was quieted when the fluctuations were ascribed to that old standby, "experimental error," or to "disturbing influences of unknown origin"-i.e., movements of the earth, the moon, the tides. More recently there has been talk of certain other "constants" which varied widely enough to be clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time...
...revolutionary principles was at hand, there was no indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official job in the U. S. as Mr. Stalin...
...view "The Inside Story," a sound film on lubrication issued by the Socony-Vacuum Company the Engineering Society will meet at Pierce 110 tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Officers for the coming year will be elected...
...editorial, calling for a "swift kick to knock the dust out of Dartmouth's baggy green pants," described most Dartmouth men as having an entirely wrong conception of the purposes of a college education. This "infantilism" or "googooism" is the result of a faculty which "lives in a vacuum and grinds out lectures like so many rusty phonographs...