Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Hero Elmer G. Costich, bronze medalist of Rochester, N. Y.: "I got my prize three months ago." He had married the girl he rescued from drowning...
Many a U. S. nutritionist declared last week, without carping at the Nobel award to Professors Hopkins and Eijkman, that, if a future Nobel Prize for vitamin research is made, it should go to Professor Elmer Verner McCollum, 50, head of the department of chemical hygiene at Johns Hopkins school of hygiene & public health. He too was an early revealer of the vitaminic essentials for diet...
Other leaders in the Humanist movement, said Religionist Potter, were Irving Babbitt, Walter Lippmann, Paul Elmer More. Evidently he referred to Babbitt's, Lippmann's, More's cultural attitude, not their religious faith. Paul Elmer More, ( philosopher and critic, is a devout Episcopalian. Said he: "I utterly repudiate Potter." Walter Lippmann said: "No connection whatever." Said Irving Babbitt: "His use of word humanism has almost nothing in common with mine...
From this idleness aviation rescued him. Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University was trying to raise money for an aviation course. He asked Mr. Guggenheim to write a money-getting letter. Mr. Guggenheim wrote the letter, showed it to his father for any suggestions that might improve it. So effective was the appeal that it immediately "sold" Daniel Guggenheim on aviation, resulted in the elder Guggenheim himself establishing the now famed $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before...
...particular field, in this case Mitchel Field, the plane was at all times. Because the action of this altimeter depends upon barometric pressure, a variable factor, a ground crew was obliged to radiophone Lieut. Doolittle air pressure conditions. In development are more independent instruments, the sonic altimeter by Dr. Elmer Sperry and the radio altimeter by General Electric Co. They will sensitively record the time and therefore the distance which a sound or radio impulse travels from a plane to the ground and back...