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Familiar to passengers who fly in multi-motored planes is the sound of throbbing overtones above the drone of the engines. "Waah-waah-waah" the engines sing. Nervous passengers imagine something is wrong. Seasoned travelers are made drowsy, are often annoyed by the monotonous chant, as by the clickety-clack of train wheels. Airmen know that "beats" occur because the propellers are not perfectly synchronized; that vibrations are harmful to the engines. Unless a pilot has an exceptionally good ear, he can rarely adjust his engines to perfect unison. (A difference of 10 r.p.m. will cause "beats...
Under a vivid canopy of red and white streamers, which will float over one thousand multi-colored balloons, the members of the Class of 1935 will celebrate the Freshman Jubilee this evening in the new setting provided by the Freshman Union. The strains of Jack Marshard's twenty-piece orchestra will supplement the carnival background of what promises to be a more colorful jubilee than any held in the small area provided by Smith Halls...
...developer of color presses has been C. B. Cottrell & Sons. Its founder, Calvert Byron Cottrell, was an inventor of many devices used in modern printing and his son, Charles P. Cottrell, who died last week at the age of 74, developed the magazine rotary press and also the multi-colored rotary perfecting press which prints four colors on one side of the paper, two on the other. For some years Cottrell & Sons have made no newspaper presses...
Died. Barbara Marquis, 13, frail daughter of Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, Manhattan wit; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Like her father a talented versifier, she had lately written, edited, managed, multi-graphed and circulated a paper called The California...
...have been firm adherents to Karl Marx are willing to set all that aside and endeavour to recover prosperity through capitalistic Tory methods. The absolute crushing of the Liberal party may be a definite indication of the maturity of the English political system, and the end of the multi-party elections...