Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FRANCES S. VAN DYKE...
Robert Bruce Houston, Jr. (Physics), Thomas Samuel Kuhn (Physics), Henry Briggs Silsbee (Physics), Milton Donman Van Dyke (Engineering Sciences...
Neither Rome nor the Pierian Sodality, alias the Harvard Orchestral Society, was built overnight. At least, that's what Milton Van Dyke, the Secretary, sagely remarked the other day when the called attention to the fact that this year marked the 135th anniversary of the Orchestra...
...wealthy man is Parliament's tall, bespectacled Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 36-year-old leader of Britain's new share-the-wealth Commonwealth Party. The social-minded M.P. inherited $80,000 when he was 25, owns vast estates that have been in his family for 400 years. Last week he gave the Aclands' 17,000 acres, worth about $1,000,000, to his country, announced that he was without an income other than the $2,400 a year he earns as an M.P. "I shall be a workingman, nothing else," he said proudly, prepared to move...
Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...