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Scandals in Washington, prohibition, and the Ku Klux Klan filled the news pages that warm September day in 1922 when 837 freshmen invaded Cambridge. But while America was caught up in the whirl of the roaring twenties, the University was calmly carrying on the traditions of its past. President Lowell's Harvard was a world of its own, as the men of '26 soon found...
...vacuum to provide space where articles can whirl around without into any air molecules. When in 1949, the vacuum chamber was of 99.9999 percent...
Meteors as small as buckshot will be tracked and photographed as they whirl through space by a new telescope-camera just acquired by the College Observatory...
...desert Tularosa Basin in southern New Mexico is a valley without a river. Fierce winds sweep across it, and dust devils whirl in the sun. On most days the valley is quiet, with only a scattered coming & going of military vehicles from White Sands Proving Ground (Army Ordnance) or Holloman Air Force Base. But sometimes a screaming roar echoes among the mountains, and a monstrous bird with a tail of flame flies straight into the sky. Or a slender, dartlike object slips out of the belly of a B-29 and streaks over the horizon at several times the speed...
McNaughton's rigorous schedule still sets a fearful example for young reporters. While others ride Washington's social whirl, he finds few things urgent enough to prevent him from settling down in his library between 9 and 1 o'clock each night. His favorite reading: Oliver Wendell Holmes' decisions and the Congressional Record...