Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leo William Tobin, Flint, Michigan--Central High School...
...other 11 representatives from Harvard included Dr. Annie J. Cannon, committee on stellar spectra; Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit, committee on meteors and related problems; Miss Jenka Mohr, committee on nebulae and star clusters; and Dr. Theodore E. Sterne, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Dr. Leo Goldberg, Miss Henrietta Swope, Miss Constance Boyd, Mrs. R. Newton Mayall, Miss Rebecca Jones, and James G. Baker...
...ablest phrasemaker writing for the U. S. press, General Hugh Johnson last week had fun playing with the President's nicknaming whimsey. The President calls his Secretary of the Treasury "Henry the Morgue." Columnist Johnson toyed with "Harry the Hop," "Fanny the Perk," "Danny the Rope," "Leo the Hen," "Harold the Ick," "Alben the Bark"-then gave up and said: "Try this new White House game on your acquaintances, mah frens...
Died. Aylmer Maude, 80, friend, biographer and translator of the works of Russia's late great Writer Leo Tolstoy; after a heart attack; at Great Baddow, Essex, England...
Died. Dr. Leo Frobenius, 65, explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist; at Intra, Lake Maggiore, Italy. In 1912, Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings on the first of his twelve African expeditions, subsequently became recognized as a top-rank authority on prehistory. Selections from the mammoth Frobenius collection at Frankfurt-am-Main were last year giving a whopping exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME...