Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kemp receives about 10 original songs a week from collegians, gives them all a sympathetic ear. He is heard every Friday night on a coast-to-coast Columbia network. He has a son and daughter who are in a hurry to get to college...
...year the equivalent of 5.49% of gross income during the year which ended last August 31. How the additional musicians are to be allocated among the stations remains to be determined by the N. A. B. To help the poorest broadcasters pay their new quotas, National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia Broadcasting System will put up $200,000. NBC's total music expenditures will rise by about $750,000 a year, CBS's by $400,000, Mutual System...
...Columbia: 70,000,000 30,000,000 Chicago: 67,000,000 Princeton: 28,000,000 Rochester: 51,000,000 Northwestern...
...medical scientists come to attention. As blood flows through these organs, it leaves waste products behind to be disposed of through bladder and bowels. Last week Dean MacNider, a sandy-haired man of medium height and 56 years, delivered the second Chandler memorial lecture at Manhattan's Columbia University, proclaimed that, according to what he has seen in livers and kidneys, disease seems to be a beneficial burden on mankind...
...this reminded connoisseurs of scientific nomenclature of a controversy which willful Lord Rutherford stirred up some time ago after Columbia University's Harold Clayton Urey had christened doubleweight. hydrogen "deuterium." Dr. Urey had discovered doubleweight hydrogen and it seemed that he had a right to name it. The nucleus was called the "deuton." Dr. Rutherford did not like these names, especially "deuton," which he declared was likely to be confused by Englishmen with "neutron," particularly if the speaker had a cold. Lord Rutherford was for calling the atom "diplogen" and its nucleus the "diplon," and a number of British...