Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mathematics and Science: Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristarchus, Apollonius, Ptolemy, Archimedes, Aristoxenus, Strabo, Leonardo, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Kepler, Harvey, Gilbert, Newton, Leibnitz, Boyle...
...been trying for a comeback this summer after two years of minding his nuggets in a California gold mine, visited his relatives in Manhattan. California's Alice Marble, U. S. women's champion two years ago, was a house guest of the Socialite Gilbert Kahns at Oyster Bay, Long Island. Little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, twinkle-toed Bostonian, sat around at the Forest Hills Inn drinking tea. California's Donald Budge, world's No. 1 amateur tennist, and his square-headed shadow, Doubles Partner Gene Mako, spent their days at the movies and listening to swing bands...
...horses cannot have set tails, a fashion which requires cutting the flexor muscles of a horse's tail, holding it in an iron "bustle" (except while in the ring or on the bridle path). Because her donation is $1,000 larger than any other Horse Show prize, Mrs. Gilbert hoped to lure horse-showers away from a cruel fashion...
...Gilbert F. Woods, Jr., '38, of Chicago, II., as Assistant in Chemistry...
Words & Music. Good taste and an unquenchably romantic point of view are the common denominators of most of the 1,000 songs Rodgers & Hart have written together. Larry Hart did not originate sophisticated lyrics. William Schwenk Gilbert was 48 years and many a smart jingle ahead of him. Richard Rodgers is not the first man to write melodies that get inside of people and do something to them. Franz Lehar could still give him a lesson in Schmalzmusik. But a song is words and music, and nobody ever fused words and music more effectively than Rodgers & Hart. When Rodgers...