Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD YALE Watt, f.b. f.b., Hamilton Babbitt, r.w. r.w., Noyes Whitney, r.c. r.c., Morton Meiklejohn, l.c. l.c., Tupper Potter, l.w. l.w., Bogart Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Donald Supper, h.b. h.b., Williamson Nazro, f. f., Nichols White, f. f., Wilbur Thorburn, f. f., Howland Oppenheimer, f. f., MacClenghen Burrage, f. f., Anthony Knapp, f. f., Grand Dockery, f. f., McEiroy Armstrong, f. f., Walther...
Thirteen square feet of steel plates have been obtained from the Boston Navy Yard by the Harvard Rifle Club and are to be put in place in the new Stadium range today. Likewise, a 100-watt footlight has been installed in the Stadium for use at the range. There are also 400 gunny sacks to be filled with sand and placed alongside the plates...
Perfection of a machine which adds Vitamin D to m>lk was announced >by the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation last week. The device consists of a large upright cylinder within which glares a12,000-watt battery of carbon arc lamps. The arcs emit ultraviolet light. The light synthesizes Vitamin D in milk exposed to its irradiation as Wisconsin's Professor Harry Steenbock ; has demonstrated. In operation 3,000 quarts of milk flow in a thin sheet down the inner walls of the cylinder, acquiring Vitamin D in about the same strength as occurs naturally in good...
...Watt has divided the "Shockers" into two groups, the castle and the convent stories. The differences between the two is merely a matter of architecture and costume. The "blue-beard baron" and the "murderous monk" for instance, both seduce virtuous maidens, and persecute heroes...
...Watt has made a delightful, as well as searching, essay out of this somewhat minor subject. He recounts many of the amusing plots, and shows their amazing similarity. Various of the characters he describes with sympathy and humor, and points out recurrent mannerisms in style: the sighs, exclamations, and questions of the heroine, the Latinate names, and the "sententious association of polysyllabic ratiocination." If all honors and Ph.D. theses were made as interesting as this one, the many attacks on the scholarship and pedantry of universities would be unfounded...