Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intimation of a $6,000,000 Rockefeller Foundation gift impelled Professor Georges Eugène Henri Roger, dean of the Paris Medical School, to ask an option upon a 15-acre, tree-pied tract of the Paris wine depots last week, for new school buildings. The school needs the money. Erected in 1769-76, and added to by slow degrees, it now affords its students neither adequate space nor modern equipment...
Dignified, erudite Grace Abbott, 51, no mother, chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, last week was particularly pleased to note that there were then 500 child guidance clinics in 350 different U. S. communities. The first of such clinics started just 20 years ago in Chicago when Miss Abbott was a resident of Jane Addams' Hull House...
...directed electrons butted the constituents of atoms around to degrees and for effects which physicists are still trying to calculate. Last year Robert Andrews Millikan's California Institute of Technology assistants developed a 1,000,000-volt tube whose rays could be detected 300 ft. away. Last week the Caltech men were experimenting with a new tube which may eventually produce the equivalent of 5,000,000 controlled volts...
Country dwellers who have a superfluity of cold in winter and a dearth of ice in summer can build themselves a year-round refrigerator. Last week North Dakota's State Agricultural College reported its success with such a refrigerator constructed on plans of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture...
...dales, mountains, canyons, plateaus, plains. Many are known-Telegraph Plateau between Newfoundland and Ireland whereupon 14 of 21 North Atlantic cables lie, Fleming Deep (5½ mi. down) off Japan and the Philippines, Merriam Ridge off Chile and Hayes Peak off California (both nearly 2 mi. high). Last week came news of another peak, 1½ mi. high, discovered 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by the nonmagnetic brigantine Carnegie shortly before she exploded in the Samoan Islands (TIME, Dec. 9). Name of the new peak is to be, unless controverted for some politic reason, Ault Peak, after the late Captain...