Word: leader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University has been a leader in the work of photographing the stars. After the first plates were made in 1888; ten years then elapsed before other observatories took up the work seriously. The collection of about 400,000 plates which the University has amassed forms the backbone of the University Observatory. If a new star is discovered, news of its discovery is first telegraphed to Cambridge: for the records there, which have note of everything that has happened in the sky during the last 20 years, are the most complete in the world. One reason the Harvard collection of plates...
...Holland '28 has been chosen leader of the University Band for the coming season. Holland led the musicians in their first public appearance at the Vermont football game in the Stadium ten days ago, after only two rehearsals of the group...
...candidates who reported at the beginning of the year, 75 have been retained and are reporting for practice regularly. Except for the leader, the officers for the year are: S. S. Ganz '28, manager; J. M. Slade '28, treasurer; G. E. Mahlert '30, librarian; and W. E. Roys '29, secretary...
...Deputy Jacques Duclos, Communist leader, the law awarded six sentences totaling 30 years and six fines totaling 18,000 francs ($540); to Deputy Andre Marty, famed Red, the law gave ten years in jail and a fine of 6,000 francs ($180); René Bellenger and Henri Barbe received lesser terms. All the sentences were for fomenting disorder...
Since the death of John Drew (TIME, July 18) there have been rumblings of controversy. The other leading candidates for president were Francis Wilson, the only charter member eligible (the president must be a prominent actor), and Otis Skinner. Mr. Skinner was a leader of the Actors' Fidelity League which opposed the now sovereign Actors' Equity at the time of the actors' strike in 1919. The hard feeling between these organizations, which is only now fading, was rumored to have raised factions in The Players. Mr. Wilson has always been a most ardent Equity protagonist. Any suggestion...