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Immediately windows are closed with a bang and lights flash on all over barracks. The plebes (first year men) have started to dream. Gradually more lights wink on over the snow covered area until at three minutes of six every light in barracks is on. It requires a piehe ten minutes to dress, while an upperclassman can do it in two minutes...
...station will be used to carry on experiments for the measuring of the effective height of the ionized region of the gases above the earth. This area is known as the Kennelly-Heavy-side Layer, and is the principal cause of fading in radio sets. This region refracts radio waves, and fading is caused by the collision of the wave, which is moving along the surface of the ground and the wave which has been refracted...
...canvass of manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom revealed everything from smug satisfaction among British steel men last week to dismal gloom in the textile area, where mill owners said that under the new schedules they will have no advantage in competing with Canadian mills. Bitterly textile men recalled that the Mother Country's Chief Delegate at Ottawa was Stanley Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd., famed British steel & iron works. In return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table...
...Wood Jr. '33, former Harvard football star and Phi Beta Kappa student, to be published on November 2, under the title of "What Price Football," was made yesterday by J. W. Crickard '33, who will act as distributing agent for the book in the New England area...
With the sending of National Guardsmen into the Taylorville strike area in Illinois, another step is taken along the road that led to the sordid history of Harlan and Bell Counties. The circumstances are substantially the same: miners refuse to work for oppressively low wages; owners, faced with a labor crisis at their own boom period, hire substitutes, who are attacked and prevented from entering the shafts; as a last resort the militia is evoked to "protect lives and property...