Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalistic giant who inspired such awe began his newspaper life early. Son of a well-to-do parlor radical, Albert Brisbane of Buffalo, who paid for space to run a doctrinaire column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, Arthur Brisbane was educated abroad, mostly by tutors, turned up on the old New York SMI in 1883, aged 19. At that time the SMI thought extraordinarilv well of itself, encouraged its young men to write long "literary" pieces. Thriving young Arthur Brisbane was made the Sun's London correspondent, wrote a famous account of the fight between John...
Last week Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, head of the Smithsonian Institution and world-famed authority on solar radiation, declared that if William Shakespeare had lived in the 20th Century he would have become an astronomer. One thing Astronomer Shakespeare would have had to get straight from the start is the different classes of nebulae. Astronomers apply nebula not only to whole galaxies of stars far beyond the Milky Way. but also to patches of dark or faintly luminous matter within the Milky Way, which is the home galaxy of earthlings. They may be distinguished by calling the local patches galactic...
...Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846. Last August it observed its goth birthday, received congratulations from its presiding officer ex officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
...Armin Barteldes, elated by a record seven- acre yield of 227,558 Ib. of onion sets (small onions fortransplanting), betook himself to a dancing class, picked out 15-year-old Dolores Volk, crowned her Colorado's "1936 Onion Set Queen." Queen Volk, who lives with her mother in Greeley, Colo., donned a set of onion sets, posed without benefit of throne, float or clothes in Onionman Barteldes' broad black acres...
...discontinuance of the School--our joy and enthusiasm over its re-creation. A definite promise by the man directly responsible to President Conant has now assured the continuance of one of Harvard's most potent means of contributing to the national welfare. Dradreaux Bender David S. Geer Roland B. Greeley Oscar Sutermeister Leslie Williams