Word: construction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs last night a resolution endorsing the plan of the Harvard Golf Association "to construct a course for the student body of Harvard" was passed. The resolution was presented by Mr. E. S. Litchfield '87, President of the Massachusetts Golf Association...
This apparatus, attached to the frog's eye, proved far more sensitive to light than any hitherto constructed, showing that the eye is a more sensitive instrument than any which it has been possible for man to construct. It measured the impulse from light a great deal too faint for ordinary human vision. The galvanometer, for instance, registered a stimulus from the light, as faint as would be that of a candle set 1200 feet away from the frog's eye, and did this, furthermore, with the front of the frog's eyeball cut off so that there...
...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map of a given piece of property in an attractive Massachusetts town, on which a house, somewhat in the Italian style, had already been erected. The owner wished to construct a formal garden of some distinction according with the style of the house, of which a photograph was furnished the competitors...
...assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books; but there seems to be as little worry about the one as the other. The statement...
...given next Friday and Saturday. Much of the scenery for the three one act plays has been completed in the 47 Workshop head quarters, Lower Massachusetts Hall, and some of it will be erected in the Agissez Theatre this evening. What is probably the most difficult set to construct will be used in "The Crows Nest", the action of which takes place in the crows nest of an ocean liner. An invention to represent the curved sky background to the rigging of a ship has been perfected, and is being constructed in the Workshop on the lines of a patented...