Word: dorrit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Open Nights lecture program follows: Friday, Oct. 27, "How Astronomers Observe," by Dr. George Z. Dimitroff; Monday, Oct. 30, "Spectacular Stars," Dr. Dorrit Hoflleit; Wednesday, Nov. 1, "Meteorites, Cosmic Calling Cards," Dr. Fletcher Watson; and Friday, Nov. 3, "Powerhouses in Space, Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin...
...Fred L. Whipple will speak on his new collisional theory of the origin of supernovae and Dr. Dorrit Hoffielt will report on current photometric studies of the supernovae in external galaxies, a research based on studies of photographs made at Harvard's three observing stations...
...other 11 representatives from Harvard included Dr. Annie J. Cannon, committee on stellar spectra; Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit, committee on meteors and related problems; Miss Jenka Mohr, committee on nebulae and star clusters; and Dr. Theodore E. Sterne, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Dr. Leo Goldberg, Miss Henrietta Swope, Miss Constance Boyd, Mrs. R. Newton Mayall, Miss Rebecca Jones, and James G. Baker...
Places where all conditions of men dwelt together in squalor, buying favors from corrupt jailers, gambling and carousing with casual visitors, rotting away their characters, were the debtors' prisons of England a century ago. Had not Charles Dickens exposed their evils (David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, etc.), had not the civilized world abolished imprisonment for debt, most citizens of the U. S. might have languished in durance vile during the years of Depression...