Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the Einsteins to Milan. There he left school to study art, then to Zurich to learn how to become a breadwinning engineer. In 1902 he got a job in the Bern Patent Office as engineer and technical adviser. Three years later, when he was 26, he published his cosmos-shaking Special Theory of Relativity in the Annals of Physics. His General Theory of Relativity was published in the midst of the War (1916), the Unitary Field Theory 13 years later. Though only twelve men in the world are popularly supposed to understand Einstein's theory, the world...
...member of the Harvard Club of Boston, the Players' Club of New York, and the Cosmos Club of Washington...
...laboratory which tests Dr. Steiner's ideas in the fields of biology and the physical sciences. Educated at the University of Munich and Oxford, Dr. Wachsmuth has devoted his life to studying the earth as a living organism. He is the author of two books, "Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth, and Man" and "The Etheric World in Science, Art. and Religion...
...Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Warburg, Alfred Stieglitz. But whenever possible he likes to translate his own ideas into colossal terms. In halting, gesticulating English he explains that he tries to make the human figure "symbolic of growth everywhere in the world, to relate it to the immensity of the cosmos. Therefore my statue grows, it has to be big. I cannot help it." He thinks the torso the most expressive and important part of the human body, often exaggerates it at the expense of a statue's head. One of his biggest carvings is a stylized group of women...
...Aune Hubble, whom he married in 1912, and six children, survive. His home here was at 74 Avon Hill Street and he was a member of the Association of American Geographers, American Statistical Association, Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Boston Exporters' Round Table Phi Beta kappa, Delta Upsilon Fraternity, the Cosmos Club of Washington, and the Harvard club Boston...