Word: intersection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...
...students must cut corners and tread on the grass, the Maintenance Department will put in a walk for them. During the past week workers have been putting in an asphalt path to run from Lehman Hall, under the "spreading beech tree," to intersect the walk entering the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue...
...should like to have tutorial work limited or reduced in the case of pass men, but they ought to be given a chance to develop an intersect with the tutor. I think everyone ought to pass a general examination, but there might possibly be an advanced part for honors men. I should like to see course teaching limited to cases where the lecturer has subjects to treat of personal interest in which he is active, and to a few elementary courses. In general I should like to see the tutorial work replace as far as possible...
...institution is so vast that to help avoid confusion the architects (Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott of Boston) put green floors in the surgical sections, blue floors in the operating departments, grey in the medical divisions. There are special light fixtures for each department. Wherever corridors intersect, a star in the floor shows the points of the compass...