Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week an airplane slipped in to a landing at "Round Hill," the South Dartmouth, Mass, estate of Hetty Green's stamp-collecting, air-minded son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green. It taxied up close to a capacious airship dock, and out of it stepped President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice President Vannevar Bush of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
After a quick inspection Dr. Compton boomed: "Perhaps not all of you understand that this is the first test of the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator as a complete machine. . . . Up to the time Dr. Van de Graaff built his small laboratory model [at Princeton] which developed more than 1,000,000 volts [TIME, Nov. 16, 1931], the highest direct current ever attained by man was about 800,000 volts. With this big generator we hope tonight to reach several million volts...
...Compton turned to a dark, heavy-chinned young man standing quietly at his side. Robert J. Van de Graaff was born in Alabama 32 years ago, won a Rhodes scholarship, became a National Research Fellow at Princeton, designed and built his big generator as an M. I. T. research associate...
...official program, about 100 pages in length, will not be ready until about Saturday, December 23. The official committee, headed by President-Emeritus Lowell, the honorary chairman, and Karl D. Compton, President of M.I.T. honorary vice-chairman, and including: Samuel C. Prescott of M.I.T., active chairman; Arthur L. Townsend, also of M.I.T., active vice-chairman; and Kirtley F. Mather, of Harvard, secretary. These officers along with Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of Harvard University, are exerting every influence to make this a smooth and efficient meeting. Last spring Mr. Samuel Woodley, representative of the association from Washington, was here making...
...cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock (Halliwell Hobbes) is party to the deception, helps prolong it until Chilcote is dead and Loder has nothing but a War scar on his wrist to remind him that he has been a masquerader...