Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest Boyd had no large part in the Irish literary renaissance but came well under its influence. He was on the editorial staff of the Irish Times for three years, married in 1913 (an able Frenchwoman) and entered the British Consular Service. After moving from Baltimore to Barcelona to Copenhagen, he returned to the U. S. in 1920, having vigorously continued his literary studies the while. Of late years, besides his omnivorous reading and a steady stream of magazine articles, book reviews and advice to Publisher Alfred A. Knopf on European literature, he has found time to complete...
Elsewhere we rent?in Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Brussels. The Hague, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berne, Madrid, Lisbon. Only in the last decade has much progress been made in putting our representatives into American-owned homes. Several of the few we own?vide London, Mexico City? are the gifts of wealthy Americans. Crowded offices, dirty buildings, bad plumbing have been the earmarks of our official residences abroad. Gradually we are improving...
...only weapons in his long war with Time, Paul Heymans. Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently perfected a device capable of measuring intervals as small as one-billionth of a second. His method, first conceived by Prof. P. O. Pederson of the University of Copenhagen, consists of the employment of the so-called "Lichtenberg Figures"-phenomena which become manifest when an electric wave is reflected from an electrode. When two electrodes are placed side by side at a given angle, these Lichtenberg Figures will meet, coincide-the moment of their coincidence depending upon the time...
...cablegram, received yesterday at the Harvard College Observatory from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, announces the discovery of a moving object in the heavens by Dr. Walter Baade of the Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf, Germany. It has not yet been discovered what the object is, since it is extremely small, being of the tenth magnitude. The object appears to be moving extremely rapidly, having a mean daily motion eastward of 4 minutes, 56 seconds, and 40 minutes of are south. According to Dr. Baade, the object when first sighted was in right ascension, 21 hours, 5 minutes...
This afternoon at 5 o'clock Dr. Thorvald Madsen, director of the Danish Serotherapeutic Institute at Copenhagen will lecture at the Medical School on "Whooping Cough: Its Bacteriology, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment." His lecture will be the first of the Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine to be given this year...