Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing not much of anything, a Manhattan society called The Friends of The Duke of Windsor in America last week issued invitations to a forthcoming dinner. Printed on the inside of the invitation was a quotation from a leading Octavian, Author Compton Mackenzie (The Windsor Tapestry): "To hear the King speaking [1936] about peace was almost to restore one's belief that peace really was going to be achieved. The very timbre of his voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle...
...action of Harvard students and Harvard University in relief of German refugees gives encouragement to all who work for humanity. It is the most effective possible demonstration of America's will that freedom and justice shall be the right of all men. --Arthur H. Compton...
Arthur H. Compton, of the University of Chicago and Nobel prize winner in a telegram to the committee called the plan "the most effective possible demonstration of American's will that freedom and justice shall be the right...
...appointment was announced yesterday by Dr. Karl T. Compton...
...Cavendish. Rutherford was already a Nobel Laureate when he went from Manchester to Cavendish. Chadwick got his Nobel Prize a month after he had left Cavendish for Liverpool. Among the foreign bigwigs who have studied at Cavendish are two other Nobelists: Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago. This bombardment of laurels seems exceedingly likely to continue...