Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rodgers, and made chairman of Texas Co. And last week, without .explanation, he resigned that job having held it a little over a week. In place of downright Mr. Holmes was elected a kindly old gentleman, Charles Bismark Ames, formerly vice president and counsel of Texas Co., since last autumn president of the American Petroleum Institute at $50,000 a year...
...House Plan was made possible in 1928 by the gift of over $11,000,000 by Edward S. Harkness. It had previously been recommended by a committee appointed by the Student Council. Work was immediately started and by the autumn of 1931 the plan was in operation...
...become something of a myth. Few. of his 20,000,000 readers have ever seen his 6-ft., big-boned frame; his long, horsey face and cold, pale blue eyes; few have heard his strangely querulous, nearly effeminate voice. He went to Cleveland for a throat operation last autumn, has not crossed the Rockies since...
outer office. He said he had come about Mr. Morgan's manuscript of Vol. I of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, mysteriously stolen from a loan exhibition last autumn at Columbia University (TIME, Dec. 5). He was whisked in at once to Mr. Morgan. For five months world police had been watching pawnshops and "fences" for the MS. The man said quietly, "Would you be interested in getting back Guy Mannering on a basis of no questions asked, no money paid?'' Mr. Morgan said, "Yes." The man left and soon a messenger brought the manuscript...
...light of a moonless night, figures Pieter Johannes van Rhijn, Dutch astronomer. (Stars supply another 25%, permanent auroral glow 15%.) On a moonless spring night residents of northern states can see a concentration of cosmic radiation as a wedge of zodiacal light at the western horizon. In the autumn the light concentrates at the eastern horizon. One theory of the source of zodiacal light supposes that it is sunlight reflected from small bodies or gas molecules. Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, has another thought-but he did not elaborate it in his Philadelphia lecture...