Word: allison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last week when the Cincinnati Assembly quickly and without acrimony elected a new Moderator, only the Machenites seemed to attribute...
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...probable that hydrogen might also have one or more isotopes of its own. Birge of the University of California and Menzel of Harvard showed that the difference would be erased if one atom of hydrogen in every 4,500 had a nucleus twice the weight of the common nuclei. Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute found some curious magneto-optic effects in hydrogen which he chose to explain by the presence of a double-weight isotope...
When the U. S. Davis Cup team was selected for European play last June the country's second ranking player, Wilmer Lawson Allison Jr. of Austin, Tex., was not on it. Later in the month Allison was asked to join the team in England. When he got there, he was told that he would not be needed. Last week, in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I., Allison got a chance to show how he felt about a team on which he had not been considered good enough to play. First he beat huge, handsome Lester Stoefen...
Beating Perry is something that the best tennists in the world have been trying unsuccessfully to do since the French championship matches last May. At Forest Hills last week Perry whisked through the first two sets against Allison 6-4, 6-3. As if impatient for the rest period that would enable him to slick down his black hair and change his floppy trousers, he flicked away the third, 3-6. Allison had the fourth too, 6-1, before Perry again settled down to serious tennis, and took the championship set 8-6. It was the first time since Lacoste...