Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write. He it is who in the end gives the answer to the question "Who did it?", but it is not given before a long investigation by Inspector Faucet, the detective assigned to the case. By means of some tricky work Faucet, ably and amusingly played by Francis Compton, decides that the only person who knows anything about the murder is Bobbie, for that pitiable person was of necessity in the room where the murder took place at the fatal moment. He then proceeds to question him about the murder, despite the fact that his only way of answering...
...Dinners and Long Tables, (the adjective is a concession to ebullient Americans), have received little attention or publicity from those not connected with Winthrop. It is with some surprise that one reads the list of speakers that have been the guests of the House during the year, Lowell, Frankfurter, Compton, Sir Herbert Ames, Williams, Flexner, Admiral Sims, Briggs, Edsall are some of the resounding names that form a garland for John Winthrop. It is quite the most imposing group that has been collected. Every Thursday there is a House Dinner at six after which there are occasional speakers, and twice...
Whatever the cosmic rays are, Dr. Compton is betting the next six months of his life that he will learn enough actual facts about them better to describe the innermost construction of all matter, in the study of which he is one of the world's top-notchers...
...University of Chicago was worried about Dr. Compton for a while this winter. He is one of ten professors at Chicago who have been awarded Distinguished Service Professorships ($10,000 yearly minimum). President John Grier Hibben of Princeton is currently 70 and resigning and the Princeton trustees were pondering Dr. Compton as Dr. Hibben's successor. (Dr. Compton is one of three men who in all Princeton's history have won doctorates in physics summa cum laude. The others are Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, and Karl Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President...
...Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling, Langmuir Prize-winner (scientific research); Arthur Holly Compton. Nobel Prizewinner...