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...Nelsons had a horror of letting others use their personal belongings. The Nelson cars, upon their owners' death, were soaked in gasoline and burned. Their jewels, clothes and furniture were shipped 250 miles away to be sold at auction. Oak Hall, the family home, was taken apart brick by brick and the art museum erected on the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Communist Riches | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...inch reflecting telescope is being installed at the Oak Ridge observatory which, when assembled, will be the fifth largest in the world. At present the mirror, which has just been silvered, is being put into place. The adjustments of the telescope will take one month and results are expected to be obtained by early spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW 61-INCH TELESCOPE INSTALLED AT OAK RIDGE | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...telescope, which cost $200,000, is one inch larger than that at Bloemfontein, South Africa, where Harvard has an observing station to cover the southern sky. This African telescope will be used to check results with the Oak Ridge station, also, as their fields overlap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW 61-INCH TELESCOPE INSTALLED AT OAK RIDGE | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...frenzy of approval for President Roosevelt's monetary program. He had also stepped on some very important Catholic toes. Now, still parrying newshawks' questions, he swung aboard his train just as it pulled out, settled down for the journey back to Detroit and Royal Oak, Mich, where from his Shrine of the Little Flower he broadcasts Sundays to an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Priest in Politics | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Harriss of Omaha, Nebraska; William Wallace Kirkpatrick of Chappaqua, New York; Albert Johnson Lynd of Oakland, California; David Levin of East Boston; Paul Lachlan MacKendrick of Dorchester; John Maier of Royersford, Pennsylvania; Joseph Neyer of New Rochelle, New York; Philander Silas Ratzkoff of Roxbury; Johnathan Barlow Richards of Red Oak, Iowa; John Thomas Sapienza of Irvington, New Jersey; Richard Bulger Schlatter of Fostoria, Ohio; John William Walsh, Jr. of Quincy; Dudley Albert Weiss of Medford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA CHOOSES SIXTEEN MEMBERS OF 1934 | 11/18/1933 | See Source »

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