Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benjamin Harrison was in the White House; in Paris, Professor Louis Pasteur was working out his theories on bacteria; and in Würzburg, Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen was on the threshold of discovering the X ray, with scarcely a glimmering of the wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week...
...occasion was a music festival run by Composer Benjamin Britten in Aide-burgh, 85 miles northeast of London. With Composer Britten conducting, Brain performed Haydn's First Concerto for Horn. The piece itself is not one of Haydn's most memorable,* but Brain's music poured out such glistening darts and gentle flutters of sound that the concerto seemed momentous. He conquered the opening and closing fast movements with sparkling virtuosity, and gave the slow middle movement a beautiful, butter-smooth tone. At the end, he took five bows before a roaring audience, then sat down...
CECILS (125 pp.)-Benjamin Constant -New Directions...
Both Charlotta von Hardenberg and Madame de Staël had handsome figures, but the only other thing they had in common was Benjamin Constant. Charlotta was sweet and submissive, Madame de Stael brilliant but tyrannical. Constant couldn't make up his mind. Shuttling back and forth between them, the famed French intellectual debated for 15 years over which one he should take and which he should leave. Cécile is his demonstration of how variable a Constant...
Marshall Baker, Physics; Normal Bauman, Mathematics; Stephen Benjamin, Government; John S. Dowman, English; Kenneth S. Brand, Physics; Harold O. J. Brown, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Jackson M. Bruce, Jr., History; Gordon L. Brumm, Philosophy and Social Relations; James C. Chace, Romance Languages and Literatures; Thomas J. Chinlund, Applied Science; George L. Christopher, Economics; Stanley L. Cohen, Classics and History; John T. Coughlin, History; Peter F. Curran, Biochemical Sciences...