Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Max Born of the University of Gottingen will give his fourth lecture on "Developments of the Quantum Theory" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Room 3 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Catholic with malice toward none and a good word for all; was not born of hatred and can never be induced to possess...
...pays $25,000 a year. Moreover it is a responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption...
Child Scientists. The contrast of the U. S. boy when he enters kindergarten and when he emerges from college, is depressing. All children are natural-born scientists, and then "the little-boy spirit that makes him tear up a drum to find out what is inside gives way to the falsely superior attitude of not caring a continental"?Dr. E. Laurence Palmer, Cornell University...
Clarence Dillon is not the first genius to appear on Wall Street, but all geniuses have their special characteristics. Besides honesty, foresight, courage and decision, what distinguishes this Texas-born, Harvard-bred, widely-traveled young man is an attitude toward business - and life - that is commonly called the artistic attitude. What other men make a labor, he makes an art. Before he tried his hand at business he idled in Europe for two years studying art and architecture. "I never expected to become a professional painter, or to build houses," he says, but he still delights to execute an etching...