Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assan Dina, Hindu millionaire, and his wife, formerly Miss Mary Wallace-Shillito, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will give to France the largest observatory in the world with a telescope more powerful than that on Mount Wilson, Calif...
...Church has gone to court. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Church proposed to erect a church to spread the gospel among the Japanese. Permit to erect the church was refused by the local City Council. Suit has now been entered to compel the issuance of the permit...
...Institute of Tropical and Preventative Medicine; told a delegation from the National Motorists' Association, " the motor industry has raised people up and has given them an entirely new outlook on life " ; pressed a telegraph key unveiling milestone marking the western terminus of the Lee Highway at San Diego, Calif.; prepared to receive a snow-white collie for the White House kennels, from Oshkosh, Wis. ; banished Peter Pan, Presidential wire haired fox terrier, until his private secretary, Mr. Clark, could teach the dog not to howl at night; heard that Mrs. Coolidge had accepted a canary from the American Canary...
...Millikan is director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, Pasadena, Calif., and executive head of the California Institute of Technology, which is mainly a research center. Until 1921 his scientific career was spent at the University of Chicago, where he rose through all the ranks from assistant to professor and co-worker with Michelson in the department of physics. Born in Illinois, 1868, he was educated at Oberlin, Columbia, Berlin, Göttingen. He is well known abroad, has already received many prizes, including the Edison medal, for his work with electrons and ions, is the author of several...
...Berkeley, Calif., Dr. Olga Bridgman announced that she had discovered a means of transforming idiots into high grade morons. No details were given, aside from the fact that the treatment is applied to the thyroid glands and is declared effective only in cases of idiocy resulting from irregular secretions from the ductless glands...