Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Astronomer Harlow Shapley, 43, of Harvard. This autumn he created his popular fame by repeatedly giving talks on stellar organizations. As the complement to the Association's initial lecture (Professor Bailey's "Continental Genesis") President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the Association appointed Professor Shapley to give the final lecture. Professor Shapley entitled his paper "Galaxies of Galaxies-a new study of the super-organization of the Milky...
...Blumenfeld is 64 years old. He was born in the U.S., worked on Chicago and New York newspapers. Then he went to England and became editor of the London Daily Express-owned by the most potent of Canadian-born peers, Lord Beaverbrook. Editor Blumenfeld toured the U.S., this autumn, as guest of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Last week, back in London, he told of the one ineffaceable memory of his tour-Prohibition, "the greatest, most tragic joke any nation played upon itself in the history of civilization...
...World. In 1883, Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World, for $346,000. In 1903, he was able to establish the Joseph Pulitzer Fund of some $2,000,000 for the endowment of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. In late autumn of 1911 he died, peacefully, on board his yacht Liberty bound south for a leisurely cruise. With William Randolph Hearst he was one of the two most influential figures in U. S. journalism...
...Cambridge, one insinuates, the child never grew large and dangerous enough to require execution. The about face of the autumn's team may have saved the University from the wails of the Black Shirts. Stald Sever may continue to enjoy its annual laugh; the provisions dealer will not lose a profitable Black Shirts. Stald Sever may continue to enjoy its annual laugh; the provisions dealer will not lose a profitable trade; the prophet still has a potential wall for dull seasons. The three chorus their thanks to Allston and to New Haven, and silence settles over the fields...
Twenty persons were killed playing football this autumn and 32 so far have been shot dead by hunters in New York State...