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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mourned Chief of Staff Malin Craig who had recommended the promotion of squatable Oscar Westover to Chief of Air Corps in 1935: "More than any other individual . . . he has been responsible for the phenomenal progress of his branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Exception Noted | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Recorded Time | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

International House has been founded for the purpose of bringing together students from all parts of the world and offering to foreign students facilities for studying English as it is spoken in America today, it was announced recently through a branch of the Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Can Study English Here | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

Last year in a small room on the first floor of the House Williams and Swett were able to assist some 300 students from every branch of the University to find an answer to personal questions. The entire gamut of possible problems was run, from a Freshman's doubts about taking up Chinese to a graduate student's hesitation about taking a wife. So far, it is claimed, no situation has stumped their resourcefulness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. PERSONNEL MEN TO HAVE LARGER QUARTERS THIS YEAR | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Harmonic analysis is that branch of mathematics concerned with the study of fluctuating or oscillating motions. Ever since the 18th Century mathematicians have occupied themselves with the hypothetical case of an infinite piece of string. In how many ways could such a string vibrate? Today the problem has taken a more practical turn. Mathematicians want to separate complex waves and oscillations into simpler movements. Chief use for harmonic analysis is study of the problems presented by the whirls and eddies of air around airplane wings. For example, harmonic analysis makes it possible to measure the varying speed at different points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Turbulent Fellow | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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