Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson and his associates at Manhattan's Bell Telephone Laboratories were performing an experiment something like a blind man's investigation of an elephant by the sense of touch. In this case the elephant was a beam of invisible electrons. When Albert Einstein found out what they were doing, he exclaimed: "We stand here before a new property of matter for which the strictly causal theories hitherto in vogue are unable to account...
Last week the Swedish Academy of Sciences reached back ten years in atomic history, back to the experimental demonstrators of the wave nature of electrons, awarded to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. Each will receive about $20,000. Said dark, lantern-jawed Dr. Davisson, already much honored for his researches: "I am suffering from a bad case of stage fright...
...Yale went into its 61st game with Princeton a not-too-heavy favorite, because it is legend that "anything can happen" in that series. But nothing unexpected happened. On the first play after the opening kickoff, Clinton Frank, Yale's hefty captain, whipped through the Princeton line, splattered 79 yards through the mud for a touchdown. Thereafter he scored three more, gained 190 of Yale's 280 yards. Score: Yale 26, Princeton...
...saved on its last scrimmage. Yale, unable to gain through Dartmouth's great line, got itself into deep water in the last quarter when Dartmouth's Bob Macleod intercepted a pass and ran 85 yards for a touchdown. With ten seconds to play, Yale's Clinton Frank, whose attack had got nowhere all afternoon, finally heaved a pass (his 35th ) into the hands of stringy Halfback Al Hessberg who galloped to a touchdown. Score...
...years the football activities of Yale's Clinton Frank were dimmed by the presence of Yale's Larry Kelley (now graduated) on the same field. Against Pennsylvania last week Frank scored one touchdown, passed to Al Wilson for another, played a brilliant defense, helped a creaking Yale machine defeat Pennsylvania for the fourth year in a row. Score...