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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin (southeast of Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska) where it will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: C.O.D. Trek | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...formed a new $1,000,000 Grover Loening Co. for pure aero-dynamic research. Mr. Loening is president and chief engineer of his new concern. He can spend its money on research as he sees, fit. He intends specifically to continue work on his small mono-wheel amphibian and in general to make planes faster, lighter, easier to learn to fly in. He admitted that he might attempt the design of a Schneider Cup racer. He said he would accept research work for any firm engaged in air craft manufacture. With his strong governmental connections, he hoped for contracts from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Loening to Research | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...these deep sea creatures crawl upon the sand beaches once each year, to dispose of their eggs in holes dug in the sand with their flippers. Six or eight weeks later the eggs hatch in the warm sand and the baby turtles troop down to the sea to spend the rest of their lives in the water. "Elementary Animals" is a microscopic study of the Amoeba and other Rhizopods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warren Relates the Adventures of Film Foundation Operators | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

Three afternoons a week is the minimum time allowance for Chemistry 22, and those of us who aren't so bright usually spend four. But it is one of the most interesting laboratory courses open to the undergraduates, and if one is at all fascinated with the complexities of organic chemistry it should prove a very worth while course. It is fully as interesting as Chemistry 2 is dull, because here you are dealing with the things themselves, and pot merely with their names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixth Confidential Guide Covers Some 30 Undergraduate Courses | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...arrival, they will be received and entertained until the performance in the evening. This is to be a joint concert, sponsored by the Williams Musical Clubs, and the program will be identical with the selections played at Roxbury, with the omission of the vocal club numbers. The group will spend the night in various dormitories and fraternity houses, before the return on Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS TO PERFORM THIS WEEK-END | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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