Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...fact that the Government can and must and will go ahead . . . with winning out through a system of careful, long-range planning. . . . You are not licked." That morning President Roosevelt had got the news of Secretary of War Dern's death, promptly shifted his schedule to attend the funeral in Salt Lake City this week. That meant dropping Minnesota and Wisconsin from his itinerary, postponing for two days his conference in Des Moines this week with seven Western governors, including Kansas' Landon...
...death, Army guns from Portland to Pearl Harbor boomed the traditional salute at half-hour intervals, 19 blasts at retreat. A train was shrouded to take Secretary Dern's body back to Salt Lake City for burial. At Bismarck, N. Dak., President Roosevelt rearranged his Drought tour to attend the funeral, was obliged to postpone for two days his Des Moines meeting with Governor Landon...
...even as President Quincy moved "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September, 1936," so President Conant, the final speaker, will conclude his remarks by making a formal motion of adjournment to the year 2036.PRESIDENT-EMERITUS LOWELL To Attend...
...Class of 1940 enters Harvard on the start of the College's three hundred and first year, a circumstance of no little importance. It is fitting and proper that this Class should be asked to attend the Celebration marking the close of the first three centuries of higher education in the United States, in as much as it will benefit by the first four years of the fourth century, years whose glory and worth will be enhanced by the experience of the past...