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We should like to put in our claim as originators of a word used on p. 63 of your March 18 issue-skidoodlers-not because we want public recognition for adding a rather silly word to a language which has too many already, but for the sake of future students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Through long evolution, the various functions of the Dean's Office have been split up among the eight College deans, though most crucial problems ultimately find their way to Dean Hanford's desk. To keep in touch with undergraduates, the University Hall mentors last year held more than 6,720...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Dean's Office, the Hub of Undergraduate Life | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

The egg, he said, represents the most primitive type to be laid on dry land, as distinguished from those deposited only in water. Determination of its origin would throw new light on the evolution of vertebrates from a lower form of life.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 3/16/1940 | See Source »

There are very few composers, if any, who can stand beside Handel in choral writing. After centuries of evolution, music for voices as a definite expressive element reached the apex of development in his works, a peak that never again has been reached. Later masters, such as Mozart and Beethoven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/12/1940 | See Source »

In 1881 Michelson and Morley raced two beams of light against each other with an interferometer (a light splitter). The beams were at right angles. Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ethereal Cat | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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