Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carthage Academy. After Carthage, young Harlow worked for a year as a newshawk, retains to this day a journalistic sense which makes his books (Flights from Chaos, Star Clusters) popular, his lectures non-soporific. At 20 he entered the University of Missouri, fell under the spell of Astronomer Frederick Hanley Scares and published, when he was a junior, a juicy paper on "Astronomy in Horace" with no less than 46 references to the works of that Latin poet. After a year of post-graduate work he went to Princeton as a research fellow in astronomy, made his abilities apparent...
...sent back to Italy one by one to study at Rome's Accademia San Luca. U. S. sculptors presently found that the Piccirillis could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and Robert Aitken's pediment for the west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice...
...that time, almost exactly parallel with Rembrandt's career, The Netherlands was entering its "Golden Age" under the able stadtholder. Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau. And Amsterdam was the golden city of the Dutch. Their armies were the crack fighting force of Europe. Their sea captains were preparing to smash Spain, rival Britain. All about him Rem brandt saw a young nation of tradesmen, sailors and soldiers, the litter of trophies brought home from the Orient...
...swung into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow upon the appearance of James C. Petrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians and member of the city park board. Good Fellow Petrillo had arranged for two months of free concerts nightly. Besides performances by the Symphony under Frederick Stock, Eric De Lamarter and Gennaro Papi, he scheduled the Woman's Symphony (Ebba Sundstrom), the Civic Opera Orchestra (Henry Weber) and eight bands...
...Said Baron Gottfried von Cramm, first German tennist to reach a Wimbledon final since the War, "He was very, very much too good for me." "He" was Frederick John Perry, ablest British tennist since the Doherty brothers, who, playing far better than a year ago, had won the Men's Singles Championship for the second year in a row by beating von Cramm in the final, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The round before, Perry had beaten Australia's Jack Crawford, Wimbledon champion in 1933, and von Cramm had beaten redhaired Donald Budge of California who, in his first...