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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that may explain the continued official interest in artificial satellites (TIME, Jan. 10). Granted the development of nuclear-powered rocket motors, it would not be impossible to establish such a satellite revolving round the earth like a tame moon. If its orbit were several thousand miles high, it could watch a good part of the earth (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Uninhabited Aircraft | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Howie Houston gets his first real test today against Reddy Finney. Finney decisioned the Navy heavyweight and the 300-pound Penn heavyweight, but Houston should win in an interesting match. It's Howie's last home appearance and it's worth the price of admission just to watch...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Princeton's Juggernaut Sweeps Onto Blockhouse Mats Today | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...U.S.A." before it reached Broadway last year, I was interested to find what had improved with a second showing and what waned. Miss Lillie, of course, improved. She has supplemented almost all of her routines with additional business, such as the swinging pearls in the Pittsburgh choral song (to watch her twirl them is worth the price of admission alone), and the Teutonic accents in the satire on the Hollywood-Chopin romances...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...degree is not sufficient in today's competitive world," Paul Johnson, management consultant and former president of the Waltham Watch Company, told 150 students in the Adams House dining room last night at the second Student Placement career conference on business opportunities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Job Forum Weighs Prestige Of A.B. for Business Careers | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

About 200 Harvard students and nearly that many more non-college spectators crowded into Langdell Hall yesterday to watch one chapter of Dr. Miriam Van Waters' appeal for reinstatement as head of the State Reformatory for Women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters' Quiz Crowds Law Building | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

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