Word: carles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-Carl Van DorenûViking...
Died. Katharine Augusta Carl, eightyish, U. S. portrait painter; scalded by hot water in her bathtub; in Manhattan. In 1903, after arrangements requiring infinite tact and ceremony, Miss Carl started to paint the portrait of China's Dowager Empress. When she had finished three, Her Majesty was so pleased with the whole procedure that she wanted Miss Carl to continue painting her picture indefinitely...
...less known phases of research work now being carried on at the Biological Laboratories are being backed by the Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research. At present two of its more notable fields of research are those in which assistant professor Kenneth V. Thimann is working on auxin and Dr. Carl Sachs on colchicene. For some time botanists had been trying to find a way to reproduce plants by other than the normal reproductive cycle in the plant; in other words by a vegetative method. After auxin had been found and made, it was Thimann discovered that when...
...California Institute of Technology a clever, conscientious young physicist named Carl David Anderson found anomalies in cosmic-ray behavior which convinced him that, in the upper air particles were being created which were lighter than protons but heavier than electrons, and both positively and negatively charged (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Drs. Jabez Curry Street and Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such...
...Vassar and Amherst College glee clubs and the Pierian Sodality of 1808 collaborated on a concert of American music in Poughkeepsie Saturday night. Harvard's string orchestra of 20 picked Pierian musicians, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, was joined by Vassar in rendering Carl P. Woods' "Winter Winds" and by Amherst in Robert Delaney's "Night...