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...Museum's statement that "a second version, and a slightly smaller picture" of Les Grandes Baigneuses was in the Barnes Foundation collection. In response he roared that the Barnes Bathers had been painted eight years before the Widener Bathers, that the latter was "monotonous, dry and lusterless" by comparison. Cracked "Argyrol" Barnes...
...comparison of this year and 1936-37: Cross Country 25 32 Football 210 225 Golf 16 74 Tennis 124 243 Touch football 83 147 Track 56 Total...
...purposes of comparison the widely known photographic apparatus developed at M. I. T., which snaps a drop of water, for instance, in various stages of splashing, attains only 1-600,000 of a second speed...
...wide range of topics all the way from Harvard debating through the Boston Symphony Orchestra to the War at Shanghai, and even to the solution of the whole economic-political problem of our time. The editors may justly be proud of such a breadth of vision in comparison with the narrowness of college literary magazines; and the business board must be pleased by a bill of fare certain to appeal to a wide audience...
Only trouble with the comparison is that air conditioning has been in its infancy for the last 30 years. In 1903, the same year that the Wright brothers were getting their airplane off the ground for the first time, Willis Carrier put the first airconditioning system in the plant of a Manhattan lithographer who found that on hot days the humidity wrinkled his paper. By 1906 Willis Carrier had devised an air conditioning system for use in cotton mills, which up to then had such a problem keeping humidity in their spinning rooms that they operated with windows open...