Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent authorities will speak at the Astronomical Colloquium to be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in Building A of the Harvard College Observatory. Dr. P. ten Bruggencate of Gottingen will give an address entitled "On the Nature of Cepheld Variation," while Professor H. H. Plaskett of the University will speak on "Russell on the Composition of the Solar Atmosphere." The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...last week, and Fred Perceval and his boy, and Harry Trimmer and his wife, all of Priddis, Alberta, Canada, got out. Harry Trimmer is postmaster at Priddis and runs the general store. Fred Perceval has had a cattle ranch there for a good many years, but he had to give it up. A dozen deaths among distant relatives made him tenth Earl of Egmont, Baron Lovell and Holland, Baron Arden. He was going to Castle Avon at Ringwood to take possession of his ancestral home...
...doubted. I still hear, and will always hear his voice−crisp and yet always the same, a voice which not only commanded, but gave comfort. Now he has gone, but I have returned to my work today as usual because I thought it the best homage I could give him and felt that he would have been pleased with me for doing...
...more. Neither one side nor the other side knows when they withdraw what its own losses have been nor how heavy those of the opposing force. Therefore, it is not on account of material damage, still less from any possible computation of the figures, that the losers give up the struggle. The will to conquer sweeps all before it. There is a psychological phenomenon in great battles which explains and determines their results. The moral factor is the most important element...
...winning advertisement was a Marcus & Co. achievement for which no personal credit should be given, their position would not be in conflict with the Harvard Award system, which generally glorifies organizations rather than individuals. What chiefly troubles Mr. Kent (and puzzles the advertising world) is that, having decided to give personal credit, Marcus & Co. put the laurel wreath upon the Hammarstrom brow...