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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such a way he keeps up with all the important branches of literature. Besides this and his work on the Juridical Committee of the Privy Council, he finds time to keep up with, and sometimes ahead of, the famed Einstein. Undoubtedly Labor could congratulate itself upon obtaining the services of so distinguished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Chancellorship | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...Izzie" Einstein, who has the most widespread reputation of any agent of the Prohibition enforcement department, was reported to be the author of the following statistics. They are the length of time which it took him to obtain a drink in twelve leading cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: A Matter of Record | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

...weeks by Professor George D. Birkhoff '05, professor of mathematics at the University, in the Lowell Institute, Boston. In the first lecture at 8 o'clock this evening, Professor Birkhoff will speak on the men whose studies have contributed to the recent theory of relativity,--"Euclid, Newton, Faraday, and Einstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birkhoff to Give Institute Lectures | 12/4/1923 | See Source »

There have been many attempts to discover the source of this ever-growing river. In fact the question, why is a mark that sinks, is recognized as quite eligible at the most informal gatherings. Not to be outdone, Harvard may offer two plausible explanations. In accordance with Einstein's theory, the scientific German may hops, by reducing the mark sufficiently far in a straight line, to make it return through curvilinear space to its original position. Or if this should be beyond the grasp of those who do not comprehend Einstein, the German may be trying to keep the natural...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GOD SAVE THE MARK!" | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

This is one of the fine points of the Einstein theory of relativity which may finally be settled by experiments undertaken last week by Professor Albert A. Michelson, head of the physics department of the University of Chicago, foremost American physicist, Nobel prize winner (1907), and Professor Henry Gordon Gale, Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ether and Light | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

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