Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guernsey, assistant director of the Peabody Museum, will go to northeastern Arizona to obtain data for a model of a cliffdwelling. The particular dwelling which will be copied is in the Segi Canyon situated over 200 miles from the nearest railroad. The model will be made and colored insofar as possible in the vicinity of the original...
...Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been selected to deliver the annual Halley Lecture at Oxford University on June 18. This lecture, which is delivered each year by some well-known astronomer, is named for Edmund Halley, who lived during the last half of the seventeenth, and first half of the eighteenth centuries. Halley, particularly famous for his cometary researches, encouraged Isaac Newton to the publication of his "Principia" and to the announcement of the law of gravitation...
Relief. In Manhattan, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. telephoned Dr. Simon Flexner, director of laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute, asking if something could not be done. Director Flexner telephoned to Quebec. Consultant Barach said: "Well, you might send me some fresh Serum No. I and II. I probably could get it here, but I'd like to have it on hand in case we find it is the proper treatment...
Ernest C. Kanzler (whose wife is Edsel Ford's wife's sister), director, the three Guardian organizations; organizer, the Universal Finance...
...Patsy. King Vidor, director of The Big Parade, has more recently gone in for cinemastudies of the average U. S. inhabitant (or babbitt, as some prefer). His findings are two of the finest films of the year: The Crowd, tragic story of a Manhattan clerk and wife; The Patsy, funny episodes of a suburban family that spends Sunday tiring itself out by trying to rest...