Word: asa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recording of President Eliot's speech in praise of Dr. Asa Grey is one of those things like a woman's being clever or a dog's standing on its hind legs: it isn't done well, but you're surprised and gratified to see it done at all. And then the glimpses of Harvard scenery, in the Tercentenary film itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame...
...DeForest, distinguished inventor, luckily took a record of President Eliot's speech given in praise of Dr. Asa Grey when a bust of the latter was unveiled in N.Y.U.'s Hall of Fame. This is one of the earliest talkie pictures ever made...
Died. William Candler, 46, vice president of Coca Cola Bottling Co. and proprietor of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, youngest son of Coca Cola's late Founder Asa Candler; of injuries received when his automobile hit a cow; in Valdosta...
...John Gorrie, sent to Washington by Florida in 1914. Dr. Gorrie is identified as the first successful maker of artificial ice in the U. S. Not long after Dr. Gorrie died in 1855 famed Botanist-Physician Alvan Wentworth Chapman and Harvard's even more celebrated Botanist Asa Gray passed Gorrie's grave during a stroll. Said Chapman: "Gray, there is the grave of the man whom we all recognize as the superior...
...Surprise-of-the-week was furnished by Princeton's Graduate Manager of Athletics. Asa S. Bushnell, who announced that this year's meet will be free, to avoid charges of track commercialization. Sportswriters, aware of the painful deficit in Princeton's athletic budget, thought the move ridiculous...