Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DAUGHTERS AND SONS-I. Compton-Burnett-Norton...
Starting the season on April 30, the Crimson crewmen meet M. I. T. and Rutgers on the Charles. On May 7 comes the Compton Cup race against Princeton, M. I. T. and Syracuse at Princeton...
...terms, suggested equally shrewd Mr. Willkie, should be set by an independent committee, in view "of the recent newspaper reports of a diversity of opinion as to policy within the TVA." Mr. Willkie's suggestions for committeemen: President Clarence A. Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin, President Karl Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter...
...devout man, like his colleagues Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Albert Einstein, is Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton. Irreverent University of Chicago students nickname the beetle-browed physicist "Holy." Even more than most scientists he participates in the institutional activities of religion; as deacon of Hyde Park Baptist...
Church in Chicago, as chairman of the University's Board of Social Science and Religion, as a Y. M. C. A. worker. This, not merely because he was brought up in a churchly home - his father was a minister, his mother a missionary worker -but because Physicist Compton thought through, over a number of years, to a belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference...