Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others, the Bar Association was ready to hear the U. S. Law criticized by its chief guest. This he was, of course, much too polite and Distinguished to do. In Constitution Hall, with aged Frank Billings Kellogg presiding, Lord Reading delivered an extremely graceful, circumlocutory and boring address, a brilliant example of how dull a great and able man can be at a formal function. He recalled his distinguished U. S. friendships, expatiated on the profession, on India, on Anglo-U. S. understanding and world depression. Only with the politest indirection did he remind the U. S. ''brethren...
...fuel. Biggest wicks are Robert Andrews Millikan (Nobel Laureate, physicist), Arthur Amos Noyes (chemist). Thomas Hunt Morgan (geneticist). Astronomer George Ellery Hale gleams on Mount Wilson nearby. The late Albert Abraham Michelson (Nobel Laureate, physicist) used to measure light's speed a few miles to the south. Other brilliant scientists frequent Caltech for work & consultation, among them Albert Einstein. Last week Caltech made sure, and announced that Dr. Einstein would again spend several weeks there, beginning some time in December. His visit is to factualize by more measurements of nebulae speeds his present theory that the Universe has been...
...changed its mind and gave five performances last week, unwilling to be completely eclipsed by what was to happen this week in rival San Francisco. San Francisco was opening a new world-ranking opera house, and presenting (at $3.500 per night) the Metropolitan's new and brilliant little star, Lily Pons...
...series, played Tuesday. The sharpshooting foot of W. D. Vogel '30, former Crimson star, accounted for three of the four Graduate tallies. The Harvard alumni showed up best, while Yale graduates failed to come up to expectations. J. P. Faude '31, All-American goalie for two years, played a brilliant game...
...planning to make conditions as encouraging as possible for the unusually brilliant scholar the University is putting emphasis in the right place. Mr. Wernaer's proposal to induce the ablest men to choose scholarship as a career by creating a permanent position for them in the university structure is admirable. The Society of Fellows, however, is something definitely worthwhile for itself, and if endowment for the Society is available within a year or two, its establishment need not be delayed until the time, probably distant, when something like Mr. Wernaer's Institute of Research can be founded...