Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan of Pasadena, Physicist Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago...
Motoring to lecture at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, la.) Dr. Arthur Holley Compton, co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1927 (cosmic rays), skidded on the wet pavement of the Lincoln Highway, crashed into another car, demolished his own, escaped serious injury. Hospitalized were his two companions of last summer's cosmic ray junket to the Andes (TIME, March 28): his wife, with cuts about the body and head, a nail through her left hand, and their son Arthur Alan, with a lacerated scalp...
...instead of at the Squadron A Armory in Manhattan. Chicago's 124th Field Artillery Armory has better seating facilities than the Manhattan Armory so it was there last week that an Army team of Captain Candler A. ("Wilky") Wilkinson, Captain Chester E. (''Stub") Davis and Major Compton C. ("C-Square") Smith played Winston Guest's Optimists for the Danforth Cup, in the Indoor Open final. The game was delayed until nearly 10:30 p. m. so that an international radio hook-up could let Argentines hear how the ponies they sold the U. S. players last...
Married. Onetime Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York City and his good friend, onetime Actress Betty Compton; by the Mayor of Cannes, France. Said the Mayor of Cannes to the groom: "I hope when you are recalled to America to take another official position, probably as Mayor of New York, you will remember Cannes pleasantly...
Well could U. S. scissor-makers afford to adopt some such plan for increasing profits. Biggest U. S. makers include J. Wiss & Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...