Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...90th birthday last week Dr. House received nine bound volumes, each containing 90 greetings from friends all over the world. There were special messages from Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, Nicholas Murray Butler. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Thomas Edison and the presentation to the school of a 90th Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles...
Last week came Clarence Augustus Chant's 70th birthday. That same day David Dunlap Observatory was officially opened and Dr. Chant officially became its director-master of the world's second largest telescope in service...
Amid the bustle of his usual routine last week, Pope Pius XI sang a low mass of thanksgiving in celebration of his 78th birthday. In this the 56th year of his priesthood, the 16th of his episcopate and the 13th of his pontificate, the Pope told his official family: ''We do not know why people worry about our health. We have just passed through a very laborious Holy Year, but we feel just as well today as when we began it. We expect to live to celebrate not alone our own jubilee after 25 years reign, but also...
Such pupils remain gratefully loyal to Dr. Libman. Generous and modest, he finances able youngsters in medical schools, in research laboratories. He gets them paying fellowships, good hospital appointments. To celebrate his 60th birthday in 1932, former pupils wrote special scientific articles for a homage volume. They got learned colleagues and friends to contribute: Nobel Prizemen Alexis Carrel and Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets...
...President complimented his audience on being "a pretty good-looking crowd" and, motioning behind him at members of the House Agriculture Committee, remarked that he had "a few members of Congress in captivity with me today." He thought of the occasion, said the President, "as a kind of surprise birthday party, for it was just two years and two days ago that the Agricultural Adjustment Act became...