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...underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their waves did not touch the platform nor did they rock it. The heavy horizontal disks at the lower ends of the hollow columns, below the depths to which the wave actions reached, counterbalanced all surface disturbances...
Last month came more news of Antioch patronage by General Motors. Charles Franklin Kettering, vice president of General Motors, president of General Motors Corp., had given the college a $350,000 science building which was to have 200 rooms, laboratories, a subbasement carved into solid rock for experiments requiring constant temperature, continual forced ventilation...
...woman once called up to ask for full details about the rock of Gibraltar-its weight, size, and height; and the most remarkable part of that story was that we were able to give them to her!" Thus answered Karl Dahlquist, for seven years in charge of the general University information bureau, when asked about some of the inner workings of the office...
...Pathetic Symphony is a strong rock to which any type of concert cancling and be sure of success. Nowhere else did Tschalkowsky so overwhelmingly give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...
...Flirtation Walk" is the center of many romantic episodes. It is merely a winding path in the hills along the river, but for generations it has been just what its name implies--Flirtation Walk. In a rather secluded spot is a rock overhanging the walk. Tradition says that this rock will fall and crush any girl who refuses a kiss while beneath it. There is no man in the Corps at present who can say that this is untrue...