Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frank Harris Hitchcock, 65, Postmaster General in the Taft Administration, publisher of the Tucson Daily Citizen; of pneumonia; in Tucson, Ariz. As Postmaster General he started postal savings, parcel post, airmail...
Married. Ernst Lubitsch, 43, Paramount's Production Chief; and Vivian Gave (Sanya Bezencenet), 28, literary agent, onetime pressagent for Cinemactress Sari Maritza; in Phoenix, Ariz...
...this season, despite overconfidence and bad luck, has been their large, placid, blond centre fielder, Harry ("Hank") Leiber, whom any consensus of experts would name as the outstanding rookie of the year. Discovered by one-time Giant Pitcher Arthur Nehf, Leiber, 23-year-old son of a Phoenix, Ariz, advertising man, joined the team in 1933, went to Jersey City, Memphis and Nashville for two years of seasoning, and so far this year has a batting average of .329. Last week, after a bad slump in which he came to bat twelve times without getting a hit, Leiber recovered...
...reaches Earth and is reflected back to the moon. By spectroscopic analysis of this "earthshine" and by inferring additional details from the known phenomena of optics, astronomers can form a plausible idea of how Earth looks from other planets. Last week Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking and spreading with the change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great blue-black patches which...
...surgeon, gynecologist, co-organizer of Chicago's Post-Graduate Medical School, organizer of its Charity Hospital, founder-editor of Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, founder-director-general of the American College of Surgeons, board chairman of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine; of heart disease; in Phoenix, Ariz...