Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jonathan Edmund Browning, 80, famed gunsmith; in New Haven, Conn. Father Jonathan Browning was an Iowa gunsmith, who founded Browning Arms Co. in Ogden, Utah (1851). Brother John invented many firearms. Jonathan Edmund constructed the models...
...have accepted are: John P. Armstrong, Francis G. Barnum, Thomas A. Boulger, Arthur Cantor, Edmund S. Childs, Jr., L. Blair Clark, Eugene V. Clark, William C. Coleman, Eric Cutler, Ralph H. Cutler, William H. Daughaday, James T. Devine, George A. Downing, Henry N. Ervin, John N. Fulham, Robert Fulton, Tudor Gardiner, Theodore L. Hazlett...
...pages of Finnegans Wake, they become aware of certain figures and phrases that recur frequently-H. C. Earwicker, Anna Livia, Maggie, Guinness, Phoenix Park, the River Liffey that curves through Dublin. Tracing these characters and places as they bob in and out of apparently unrelated words and sentences, Critic Edmund Wilson has worked out the most intelligible interpretation of the book, supported by Joyce's own statement that, as Ulysses is a Dublin day, Finnegans Wake is a Dublin night. The long confused passages in which people change shape, the speeches that sound matter-of-fact but turn...
Joyce's admirers, George Moore, W. B. Yeats, Edmund Gosse, meanwhile began to worry about his perennial poverty, succeeded in getting him ?100 from the Privy Purse, thought that Joyce should show his gratitude by aiding the Allied cause. Joyce, who was under oath to the Austrians not to bear arms and is resolutely unpolitical, thought he did enough by spreading British culture. He founded the English Players and put on his play Exiles...
...number of variable stars were discovered in the systems by Walter Baade and Edmund P. Hubble using the powerful talescope of Mount Wilson Observatory. It was then found that older Harvard sky photographs taken at the South African station had recorded some of these variable stars. Determination of the distance of the new system followed...