Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Astronomer Herbert Hall Turner, 67, of Oxford. Professor Turner, swart & burly, resembles a typical, prosperous British factory manager. He has never been in business. His fame is for his formulae for measuring star distance by means of photographs...
Astronomer Harlow Shapley, 43, of Harvard. This autumn he created his popular fame by repeatedly giving talks on stellar organizations. As the complement to the Association's initial lecture (Professor Bailey's "Continental Genesis") President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the Association appointed Professor Shapley to give the final lecture. Professor Shapley entitled his paper "Galaxies of Galaxies-a new study of the super-organization of the Milky...
...Green '28 has been chosen for the collegiate Hall of Fame conducted by the publication, College Humor, according to a recent announcement. The only other Harvard man known to have received this honor is George Owen, Jr., '23, who was prominent in athletics at Harvard...
...page in College Humor called "We Nominate for the Hall of Fame" is devoted to the photographs and life stories of some of the most pronfinent college students from all over the country. Green's name will appear in one of the ensuing issues of the magazines...
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. of Manhattan etc. is not to be confused with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. who lives in Philadelphia still, guarding jealously the Biddle fame and fortune, both of which were founded by Nicholas Biddle just after the Revolutionary War. Biddle Sr. was once a better boxer than his son; he allowed his proficiency to lead him to a pursuit which he called Athletic Christianity and which he preached around the world...