Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of the three-day conference nearly one hundred papers will be presented to the scientists, most of them dealing with geological conditions in the United States. R. A. Daly, retiring president of the society, will give the presidential address on "The Depths of the Earth." He is also about to present a new book entitled "Igneous Rocks." Another important paper on "The Development of the Intervertebrate Paleontology in America," to be presented by R. S. Bassler, retiring president of the Paleontological Society...
...important addresses that will be given at the time of the convention is the greeting by President Lowell, which is scheduled for Wednesday, December 28. The retiring president of the Society, R. A. Daly, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, will deliver the presidential address on "The Depths of the Earth." "Development of the Invertebrate Paleontology in America" is the subject to be discussed by R. S. Bassler, retiring president of the Paleontological Society. A. N. Winchell of the Mineralogical Society of America will speak on "The New Mineralogy...
...Vagabond, returning to his proper business after a too long sojourn in fields remote, has been meditating on certain great men of the past. He has run his eye over the scroll of worthies, all great men in their time, sons of thunder, shakers of the earth,--and now forgotten. Like all of the Vagabond's musings, this one had an external stimulus and efficient cause, though the upshot is as the spirit listeth. For the Vagabond has been casually reading some minor English poets, men whose names are known to all, their works to none, or whose immortality...
Jane Mast, who is rather unconvincing early in the evening, develops a personality that is persuasive. She has lines which would tax the powers of many screen stars, such as "Ah, I want only the sky, the sea, the earth, simple things," and on the whole emerges unscathed. Harry Hutchinson '33 does an excellent impersonation of a sexagenarian. John Cromwell '36 and J. R. Yungblut '35 also sustained important parts in the production with professional skill. The sets were very realistic and were cleverly handled for seven changes of scene. The Dramatic Club has brought forth another play that deserves...
...fortune in London. "Art is art because it is not nature," he had believed, but there was a change wrought by those days, forty years ago. He moved in Wilde's circle and learned that it did not matter whether the sun went round the earth, or the earth round the sun. The patriots seized upon him, and his was the "Celtic" art. Today he is at Leverett House, today he is in Boston...