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...Benioff Seismographs, most sensitive of any, at the station on Oak Ridge, Harvard, Mass., have been used by Dr. Lect to study the New England upper crust in collaberation with the Dominican Observatory, Ottawa, Williams College, Weston College, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By measurements of quake waves of both the "Push" and "Throb" variety, Dr. Lect has determined that the New England top layer consists of nine miles of hard granite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 11/13/1940 | See Source »

...vaguely, that long-suffering London felt relatively relaxed despite raid alarms as numerous as ever. A German report that the shiny black glass show-building of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express was shattered, proved false. But the historic Middle Temple, shrine of the British bar, with its great oak table said to have been given by the first Queen Elizabeth, was smashed up badly. Most other new damage was sprinkled thinly among residential districts. Londoners felt cheerful enough to grouse about the Government's slowness in bringing up unemployed Welsh miners to clear away debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Daily Damage | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Teaching Fellows in Economics and Tuters: John E. Exter, of Oak Lawn, Illinois, A.M. Fletcher School '34; Rendigs T. Fels, of Cincinnati, Ohio, A.M. Columbia University '40; and Joseph T. Morgan, of Middletown, Ohio, A.M. '40; Teaching Fellows in Economics: Arthur G. Auble, of Ord, Nebraska M.A. Nebraska '40; Hamilton Q. Dearborn, of Springfield, M.A. Wisconsin '40; and James N. Morgan, of Evanston, Illinois, A.B. Northwestern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Appointments In College Announced | 10/23/1940 | See Source »

...went-Oak Harbor, Sandusky, Elyria, plowing the ground, sometimes stony, sometimes soft. Everywhere he had been phrasemaking, rather than speechmaking: "When you have unemployment you have cut the jugular vein of America. . . . People say we ought not to change horses in the middle of the stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Terribly Late | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...special concrete base. Usually only a top of turret or dome rotates on tracks supported by a non-rotating building. The Jewett Reflector rotating building is twelve-sided and is insulated with homosote. Construction was under the direct supervision of Dr. George Z. Dimitroff, superintendent of the Oak Ridge station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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