Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assisted by the Foundation during the coming year is that of Dr. W. G. Luyten G. '24, assistant professor of Astronomy in the University. Dr. Luyten will go to Mazelspoort, South Africa, with the aim of taking a large number of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope in the Harvard Observatory there. His object will be to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1906, to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...Bruce Barton School...
...afraid that, in the minds of many readers, this attitude will place TIME in the ranks of Philistines and others of the Bruce Barton school who interpret the world's most cherished illusions in the light of their pragmatical souls...
Inquisitor Walsh thundered, Missouri's Reed hammered, Virginia's little Glass poured sputtering acid, Nebraska's cold Norris heaped disdain, upon 17 Democrats who joined Senator George with evident relief. Anger replaced relief as the debate grew hot, until Maryland's elderly Bruce, who usually just bumbles along, shrilled out: "The Senate is drunk with its investigating powers...
...Boys (i. e. graduates) of U. S. private schools wonder what their old-time "Heads," "Doctors," "Prexies" and "Kings" talk about when they get together. The newspapers told something of the Princeton meeting-how the trip to England of the studious Kent School crew last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing over a chestnut with Headmaster Alfred E. Stearns...