Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services of four non-Harvard men. Dr. Knut Lundmark, University of Lund, will come from Sweden to give a course on "The Problems in the History of Astronomy"; Dr. Meghnad Saha, University of Allahabad, India, will lecture on "Astrophysical Problems". Two men from the Mount Wilson Observatory, California, Dr. Cecilia H. P. Gaposchkin and Dr. Paul W. Merrill, will give a course on Variable Stars...
Richard is the boy who wants to right the wrongs of the Social System in a crushing valedictory address, which is interrupted, amid great applause, at the end of a stereotyped preamble. A brilliant, poetic idealist, he gets into trouble with the father of his girl (Cecilia Parker) because he has given her verses by that renegade, Algernon Charles Swinburne. When he believes that she has spurned his love, Richard samples his first kisses and his first drinks in company with a fast-stepping lady from New Haven, who wears flounces, high-laced shoes, low-slung garters...
...Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, astronomer of the University Observatory, spoke last night at the last of the series of "Open Nights" lectures. Her subject was "New Stars...
...past ladies have been easy pushovers for the great Nordoff, but Cecilia Wandover knows her numbers and realizes that the only way to get Nordoff away from his wife is to deny him that which has hitherto been the goal and end of his playing about. Mrs. Nordoff loves her faithless spouse and is confident that she is essential to fulfillment of his career...
Realizing that under the proper circumstances the inevitable can be forced to precede the usual formalities, Mrs. Nordoff tricks Cecilia into believing that the way to the alter lies through the bed. Nordoff scores a Phyrric victory and is presently back in his wife's arms. All this familiar activity may or may not prove the assertion of the title, but it is performed to the tune of skillful and fresh dialogue by a company of thespians whose ability justifies their prominence...