Word: hanns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Law, George M. Pynchon Jr. and Elliot S. Phillips have worked up the Westchester Club. Charles Townsend Ludington is busy at Philadelphia; Major Lorillard Spencer, Count Alfonso Villa and William H. Vanderbilt at Newport; George Hann at Pittsburgh; David S. Ingalls at Cleveland; Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill Patterson, Philip Wrigley, John J. Mitchell at Chicago; William G. McAdoo Jr., Tod Ford Jr., Aldrich M. Peck at Los Angeles; William G. Parrott, Peter B. Kyne, Julliard McDonald, Thomas B. Eastland, Alexander Young, Edward H. Clark at San Francisco...
...pioneers in the study of the world's climates. Dr. Julius Hann of the University of Vienna, published his hand book in 1883, an edition of which was later translated into English by Professor Ward. When Dr. Hann died, the study had to be continued by someone else, for climatology needs a constant flow of new data to keep it abreast of the times. Professor Koppen took up the work in Europe, while the task of preparing the chapters of North America fell to the lot of Professor Ward and his associate, Professor Brooks of Clark University...
...Tables of climatic data, however, inevitably become inaccurate," Professor Ward pointed out, "and the time has come for a new and more comprehensive book. Professor Hann is dead, but Professor Koppen, who worked with the older man for years and is at present the leading figure in the older school of European meteorologists, has undertaken the work. He has selected some 25 meteorologists to collaborate with...
February 15--"Virgil", Professor E. K. Hann...