Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia umbrella maker, James Stokley is a jack of all sciences; puttered with chemistry and photography in boyhood, studied biology at the University of Pennsylvania, took an M.A. in psychology, taught general science in high school, wrote science articles for newspapers. In 1924 he met the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, famed chemistry popularizer, who hired him as a staff writer for Science Service. As a Science Service writer Stokley hopped over to Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar eclipse expeditions and two years...
...Godkin Foundation, which is sponsoring the lectures, was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin...
...mending. Yet few of them understand why A. F. of L.'s executive council, which William Green represents, should want to have its Magna Charta and change it too. The reason A. F. of L. is so angry with NLRB Chairman J. Warren Madden and his two Smiths (Edwin Seymour, Donald Wakefield) is in the Wagner Act itself...
First warning of more serious effects came from Dr. Edwin E. Ziegler, pathologist of the U. S. Public Health Service, who reported that goldfish might contain tapeworms which, lodging in the intestinal tract, would give swallowers anemia. Nevertheless, collegiate swallowing continued.* Gordon ("Doc") Southworth, of Massachusetts' Middlesex University's School of Veterinary Medicine, stationed himself beside Soldiers Monument on Waltham Common with a pail of goldfish, in 14 minutes swallowed 67. At University of Missouri Marie Hansen became the first co-ed to swallow a goldfish. Champion at week's end: Clark University's Joseph Deliberato...
NEWSPAPERMAN STUFF: Edwin A. Lahey, the Chicago scribe now at Harvard (on one of the Nieman Fellowships) was asked by a Boston Gazette to do a guest drama criticism on the Harvard Hasty Pudding show, in which the college boys cavort as chorus girls. . . . Mr. Lahey didn't think much of the show and said so in his review, but the paper didn't print it. . . . Presumably because the event is always a big social moment in Boston and the home towners might be offended. . . . His wind-up bears repeating, however: "These shows were originally presented for the entertainment...