Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four days previously the members of the Power Conference were invited behind a board fence next to a garage on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, there to see a solar engine which Secretary Charles G. Abbott, of the Institution, perfected to a point where it could produce power as cheaply as coal at $3 a ton. Unfortunately the engine "burnt out a bearing" an hour or two before the visitors arrived. President Gano Dunn of J. G. White Engineering Corp. pointed out to them that if the surface of the lake behind Boulder Dam were covered with such engines...
...story of Harvard is here from its earliest conception by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and its successful birth by virtue of John Harvard's gifts. Through Master Eaton and President Henry Dunster to "the great Leverett" and through Kirkland to Charles William Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Professor Morison has traced its now illustrious now "low and languishing" course through three centuries...
Long familiar to Cape Cod residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner...
This afternoon meeting is under the auspices of the Harvard Alumni Association, and is conducted not by the University but by the Association, which has elected former President Abbott Lawrence Lowell as "President of the Day"--to use the terminology of 1836. He will be accompanied by the President of the Alumni Association, Hon. Learned Hand...
Last week at Farmingdale, N. Y., Buell Patrick Abbott won the public links championship of the U. S., 4 & 3, against a Washington, D. C. haberdasher named Claude Rippy. Now such a famed golfer that caddies asked for his autograph, he revealed his plans: to return to Hollywood, resume work as an extra...