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Determined to melt traditional University indifference towards visiting teams, a four-man Student Council sub-committee met for the first time last night even as Dean Bender promised the group full University Hall cooperation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender Ready To Give 'Key' Cabinet Help | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

...nation. One day she came into his father's office, where Stafford was helping get out campaign literature, and asked if she could help electioneer. Since then, she has seldom left Cripps's side. Tall, blue-eyed, with fluffy, grey hair, Lady Cripps's vivacity helps melt his icy public front. In a recent interview with a reporter, Cripps was stiffly formal. To almost every question he objected: "Well, you really can't ask that," or "Sorry, but that's Cabinet policy." At last Lady Cripps broke in: "Now, Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Tiger may not melt, but he will certainly mellow tomorrow night--along with the rest of Cambridge--and when local imbibers find that the ice is melting and the spirits weakening, they may well turn to a new invention of Howard H. Hopson '46, which replaces the broken bottle cork with a glorified spigot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus' Gadget Puts New Zest into Zombies | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

Tomorrow night will see a return to the rally routine, head cheerleader Gerry Spear reminded the student body yesterday. "Melt, Tiger, Melt" will be the keynote of the mass meeting, Spear announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Scheduled | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

Ordinary sapphires and rubies are clear crystals of aluminum oxide (A12O2). The colors come from small amounts of such elements as chromium or iron. For years, both gems have been manufactured (without the stars) by passing finely powdered A12O2 through the flame of an oxyhydrogen blowpipe. The tiny particles melt and then solidify into a crystalline blob just beyond the flame. Such crystals have all the beauty, color, hardness and other desirable properties of natural gems. When they are well made, their "falsity" can be detected only by an expert who looks (with a microscope) for their slightly curving "growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sapphires for Everybody | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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