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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are three strong candidates for the 121 and 128 pound assignments, all of whom weigh slightly under 130 pounds at present. Clever Junior Ted Schoenberg heads the list and is an absolute certainty to get one of the jobs, and Sophomore Jim Redmon is a good bet for the other one, whichever it is. Another second-year man, Harry Blaine, constitutes their major opposition. Schoenberg and Redmon may either take turns at the reducing task or perhaps a definitely superior combination of the two may be established...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...repeated electrical pushes. With his 85-ton cyclotron Lawrence and his numerous co-workers have created scores of artificially radioactive substances, including common salt, and have even created a few atoms of gold. He now has a 225-ton cyclotron and is planning an even bigger machine, that will weigh 2,000 tons (TIME, Nov. 6). Dozens of cyclotrons are now in use all over the world, and many are in charge of physicists who got their first cyclotron training under Lawrence at Berkeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cookies from Stockholm | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Page did well at center Saturday, but it will be a close fight between him and Richardson for the starting berth against Exeter. Both boys weigh about 170 pounds and are weak on their passing; Page's particular forte is defense where he is aggressive and fast...

Author: By John W. Saliantins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...Archibald MacLeish recently summed up the situation facing all college students today. The great problem is how far we should allow the European war to weigh upon our minds, and, therefore, upon our attitude towards life in general and academic work in particular. Though this problem strikes harder at the Freshmen, a solution is no less demanded by upperclassmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCHOLAR'S CALL TO ARMS | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Upon Ambassadors Kennedy & Bullitt will weigh more & more heavily the task of accurately appraising and interpreting events in Europe-with always in their minds as in the minds of all U. S. citizens the mounting question: What do these events mean to the U. S.? What might the U. S. do in a world already war-torn and threatened with chaotic consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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