Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Storm. Warming up to his theory, Dr. Petersen quotes A. J. Beveridge to point out that Charles Darwin was born the same day as Lincoln, that Victor Hugo, Cavour, Disraeli, Dickens, Bryce, Thackeray and Bismarck were all born at about the same time. To support his idea that unsettled weather has something to do with it, he notes that a crest of great sun spot activity in 1778 was followed within a few years by a historic high point in mankind's production of geniuses, that the Golden Age of Greece coincided with an alltime high...
Philip Warren Anderson (Physics), Harold Clarence Passer (Economics), Carl Bryce Seligman (Electronic Physics...
...small margin of the Crimson triumph can be attributed largely to the superior coxing of Ducey, holding his sprint until the right time, and the superior bladework of the eight, paced by Bryce Seligman at stroke. There was not terribly much to choose between the power of the respective crews...
...United States is ever visited by a second Alexis de Tocqueville or another Lord Bryce, he will find ample subject matter in the mores of American journalism. One of the most inexplicable events in that profession is the case with which recognized experts in one field soon erect themselves into seers of knowledge in general. The sports columnists have led the parade to omniscience; first it was Ring Lardner, then Westbrook Pegler. Since the war began, Boston's own Bill Cunningham has been proclaimed the master of morale and the captain of the captions. Now Ely Culbertson, of all people...
...Percival discovered the canals of Mars and the planet Pluto. His younger sister was the cigar-smoking poetess Amy. At Harvard young Lawrence was a brilliant student of mathematics and never lost a foot race. Still proud of his fitness some 50 years later, he one day challenged Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth) to climb a picket fence built around the Harvard athletic field. Bryce declined, but Lowell nimbly scrambled over...