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...revolutionary telescope is being installed in the Oak Ridge Station of the Astronomical Observatory, the University announced recently...

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

...dispatch case, was a picture of determination as the Council members strode off to lunch. Afterward Prime Minister King led them to Parliament House. On the way up the front steps Mr. King stumbled and Fiorello LaGuardia darted to pick him up. The Council retired into the long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their bailiwick. Asked what he expected of the conference, the Little Flower of Manhattan snapped: "Results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ol' Man River | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Under the green-decked, beflagged arch of the station entrance, down oak-garlanded stairs lined with Elite Guard troopers, he marched, smiled and saluted acknowledgment to straining thousands in the streets. With the savage chant of Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! ringing in his ears, he entered his automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy Hitler | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Fight fans saw a slight improvement on the first: a more aggressive Louis, less befuddled by his ring mate's antics; a more upright Godoy, less bent on self-preservation. For six rounds, iron-jawed, oak-legged Godoy, his left eye dripping blood from a first-round bombardment, stuck close to his adversary, withstood his short-range punches. But, in the seventh, he succumbed. In the eighth, Godoy was knocked down again for a count of eight, and a few seconds later, still charging crazily like a wounded bull, collapsed from exhaustion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Louis Downs Another | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Charles D. Aldrich '40, of Wollaston, Mass., and Ward MacL. Hassey '40, of Chicago, III., will give the English parts. Phil C. Neal '40, of Oak Park, III., will be the alternate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aldrich, W. Hussey and Brooks Named to Parts | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

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