Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger F. French '37 is announced as chairman of the Dance Committee, composed of Robert O. Easton '38, James E. King, Jr. '36, James S. Munroe '38, and Edwin S. Skinner '38. The date has been set for Friday evening...
...Cook, after some two years in the Arctic, announced that he had reached the North Pole. Promptly the Crown Prince of Denmark bestowed on him the medal of the Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which can be regarded as proof...
Fourteen years ago U. S. District Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes of Mississippi sentenced Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo to 30 days in jail for refusing to testify at the trial of his political mate, Governor Lee Maurice Russell, on charges of seducing a State Capitol stenographer. Last week Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo had his chance to get even, with Judge Holmes. His nomination to be United States Circuit Judge, Fifth Circuit, was up for Senate confirmation...
...virtual monopoly on the Prix de Rome scholarships. Recognizing these facts, Manhattan's Yale Club last week opened its first annual exhibition of professional Yale artists. Graduates responded enthusiastically. Over 70 Yale artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist Eugene Francis Savage (1924); Etcher Troy Kinney (1896); Sculptor Wheeler Williams (1918); Satirist Reginald Marsh (1920); Portraitists Augustus Vincent Tack (1912), Deane Keller...
Last January it struck a photographic plate under Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope, where its record was observed by famed Edwin Powell Hubble. Because of its great distance the star never approached naked-eye visibility, faded rapidly in late February. But Dr. Hubble's coworker, Dr. Milton LaSalle Humason, took spectroscopic and photometric observations which indicated that at the peak of its long-ago death agony the super-nova was 50 times as hot and 10,000,000 times as bright...