Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrence Hanley who is one of a band of scholars roaming the rural U. S. to note and map its regional dialects before they become obsolete. In about ten years the U. S. will have a complete Linguistic Atlas. Workers are still occupied with New England, where the Atlas was begun two years ago (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Professor Hanley got his cowthumpiana by personal interview, from 262 sources. Naturally cowthumping is more prevalent in rural districts than in urban centres. Yet sophisticated residents of Danbury, Conn. might be surprised to hear that a Danbury woman said: "They started...
...Linguistic Atlas was planned in 1925 by Austrian-born Dr. Hans Kurath, 41, onetime German teacher at Texas. Northwestern and Ohio State Universities. The American Council of Learned Societies began financing it in 1931; Yale University was its first home but Brown University offered more spacious quarters. Dr. Kurath is now chairman of Brown's Germanic languages department. The Linguistic Atlas began expediting its work last autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet...
...calling her the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time; the National Academy of Sciences making her its first woman member; Pictorial Review giving her $5,000 for "achievement." Her importance lies with her studies in anatomy and pathology. She has made an atlas of the medulla and midbrain. She has delved to the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, the physiology of blood vessels, the origin of blood cells. Lately her work has been what she calls "an intensive study of the blood as related to the whole pathology of tuberculosis...
Meantime Floyd Bostwick Odium, master of Atlas Corporation, had been going around picking up second-hand investment trusts. Atlas' holdings of Blue Ridge were listed on Dec. 31 as only 92,215 shares, of Shenandoah only 19,471, but Mr. Odium must have picked up more off the record, for last week he turned up with control...
...beauties of the South passed from Mr. Williams to Mr. Odium, becoming incidentally the 20th and 21st investment trusts that Atlas has picked up. The list began with 1) Widlaw, Inc., February 1930; 2) All America General Corp., June 1930; 3) Allied Atlas Corp. (formerly Exide Securities Corp.), August 1930; 4) Power & Light Securities Trust, March 1931', 5) Selected Stocks, Inc., March 1931; 6) Ungerleider Financial Corp., April 1931; 7) Iroquois Share Corp., May 1931; 8) General Empire Corp., June 1931; 9) Jackson & Curtis Investment Associates. July 1931; 10) Sterling Securities Corp., July 1931; 11) Securities-Allied Corp. (formerly...