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...project work began 15 months ago converting the old single-track railroad line and its 80-mile string of ocean bridges into a 20-foot, two-lane highway between Lower Matecumbe Key and Key West. Widened and decked over with reinforced concrete slabs, the new road and its 30-year-old foundations are warranted hurricane proof by Government engineers. FERA and the Red Cross have built concrete storm shelters along the route, each supplied with emergency fresh water. The steel railroad rails have been economically reset as guard rails. Most of the workers were Key Westers from relief ranks, among...
...symphony is a long composition in three or four separate movements written for a large orchestra. But not every orchestral composition in three or four movements is a symphony. Nearly any composer can string a few movements together like the acts in a vaudeville show. But a real symphonist must build his movements like the acts of a drama, make each one lead to the next, bring down his final curtain on an impressive climax. The great symphonists of any generation can be counted on the fingers of one hand...
Leading roles will be sung by David P. McAllester '38 and John H. Eric 1G. The production will be in costume with a ballet group, and will be accompanied by harpsichordist Claude Chiasson and a small string orchestra and chorus...
...Langmuir clinched his argument by making an artificial botfly of solder (one centimetre long, one-half centimetre thick), whirling this on a string in such a way that he could time its velocity with a telechron clock. At 13 m.p.h. the path of the artificial fly was already a blur, at 26 m.p.h. it was barely visible, at 43 m.p.h. the direction of rotation could not be told, and at 64 m.p.h. the object was entirely invisible. Comparing the appearance of his artificial fly while in motion with Dr. Townsend's descriptions. Dr. Langmuir concluded that a good estimate...
...trio will endeavor to add to its string of victories, including such notable conquests as winning over Yale twice, while Army and Cornell have also been taken into camp. The Princeton aggregate has not rolled up an impressive record, having been beaten by both Yale and Army...