Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physicist Arthur Holly Compton Sc.D...
University of Wisconsin (Madison Wis.) Martha McChesney Berry of the Berry Schools (Mount Berry, Ga.).... LL.D. President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology .....LL.D...
...directors, will be effected by an exchange of stock on a pro-rata basis. That it will be approved at a special stockholders' meeting June 20 is likely because it was originally recommended by the stockholders' protective committee formed last April under the chairmanship of George Brokaw Compton. Salaries of new officers will be limited to $10,000, bonuses will be banned unless approved by stockholders, and directors may be ousted at any time by stockholders' vote. Thus from the stage will pass famed United Aircraft & Transport Corp. which last year grossed $26,567,514 from operations...
...some more or less definite time in the ancient past? . . . The possibility of synthetically preparing chlorophyll and through its action storing chemically the power from the sun in a more efficient way than can be done through the growth of plants is an enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein...
...effort to strengthen the weak spots revealed by the Compton Cup Race last Saturday, Coach Charlie Whiteside yesterday afternoon changed the positions of four men in his first two crews. "Big Jim" Gardner who has been rowing No. 4 on the Jayvee outfit has been moved up to the Varsity No. 6 position whole John Bray, Jayvee No. 7 has been advanced to the Varsity Bow to add more weight to the front of the boat...