Word: alberts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Besides Alfred Dreyfus' famed autobiography, the best known works on Devil's Island arc Condemned to Devil's Island and Free by Mrs. Blair Niles; Hell Beyond the Seas by Age Krarup-Xielsen; Au Bagne by Albert Londres...
...Albert Einstein's wife was ill, so he sent word that he could not attend. He was to have read a paper "On Some Approximate and Rigorous Solutions of the Field Equations." Another Nobel Prizewinner who was expected to attend but did not was cocky young Werner Heisenberg of Germany, author of the famed "Uncertainty Principle" which has severely shaken the rule of Cause & Effect in physical science. Just as he was getting ready to leave Leipzig, at whose university he has been a professor for nine of his 35 years, the Uncertainty Principle's author was ordered...
...Philadelphia last fortnight, at a Robin Hood Dell Concert, José Iturbi led the Philadelphia Orchestra and Violinist Albert Spalding through the first movement of a Beethoven concerto. When, in a brief interval that followed, news cameramen began popping flashbulbs and snapping pictures, Iturbi and Spalding flounced off the stage. From an anteroom where they fumed & raged for ten minutes, a chair came whizzing into the audience's view. Explained Iturbi later: "I was annoyed and I blew...
...another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year ago with 128 words a minute...
...Albert L. Rabinovitz, '36, is winner of the medal of the Comite France-Amer-ique awarded to the successful contestant in an annual declamation in French...