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...tragedy was narrowly averted in Kirkland House last night as two Sophomores attempted to emulate Ann Sheridan's life mask with a home-made concoction of plaster-of-paris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND HOUSE SOPHOMORE TRAPPED IN HOT LIFE-MASK | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

...operation was performed, was nearly parboiled as the solution hardened prematurely with considerable heat before the removing devices could be affixed. Amid agonized notes as to the high temperature that was being generated, Trevaskis's roommate, Richard E. Moot, labored desperately to devise some means of removing the mask...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND HOUSE SOPHOMORE TRAPPED IN HOT LIFE-MASK | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

...original plan had been to sink match-sticks into the plaster so that the mask could be stripped off in neat sections, but Trevaskis himself finally released the volcano-like heat by crushing the mask with his hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND HOUSE SOPHOMORE TRAPPED IN HOT LIFE-MASK | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

...explained that the Harvard coronagraph, which has been under construction for three years, in a special type of telescope in which an eclipse of the sun is artificially created by means of appropriate screens to mask out the bright solar image...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Plans to Construct World's Highest Observatory | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...begins in England when war with Germany was only a weekly scare and not an hourly terror. It shows war overtaking children. The snout-nosed gas mask appears. For infants too small for the mask, there is the gasproof container. There are shots of a terrified baby being forced into a container, staring through its big glass pane in panic as he is sealed in. In their back yards people construct flimsy-looking air-raid shelters, decorate them with potted plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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