Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin, chairman of the Department of Astronomy, said yesterday that the exact nature of his work here has not yet been decided, but that he will probably teach a course next semester relating to some aspect of his recent research...
Tonight's concert will include Ode on St. Cecilia's Day and Organ Concerto, Opus 7, Number 2, by Handel; Magnificat, by John C. Crawford 2G, and Gloria from "Mass of the Holy Spirit" by Randall Thompson, Walter W. Noumberg Professor of Music...
...other two women with professorial status are Cora A. Du Bois, professor of Anthropology, and Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchin, professor of Astronomy...
Shrieking Leap. The woman Milan critics now call Goddess Callas was born Maria Anna Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos at dawn on Dec. 3, 1923 in Manhattan's Flower Hospital, four months after her parents arrived from Athens. In Greece her father had been a successful pharmacist. But in the U.S. he drifted from job to job. The family moved from one cheap apartment to another, the parents always squabbling, often on the verge of breaking up. Maria remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly...
...supply editors and Cartographer Chapin with historical dates and data, Researcher Cecilia Dempster, a University of Edinburgh-trained geographer who worked for the American Geographical Society before she joined TIME in 1953, crammed for three months. "My biggest problems," she said, "were to reconcile the different viewpoints of historians and to locate ancient boundaries. The Romans, bless them, very carefully recorded theirs; the Moslems didn't bother...