Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...
...great Paris couturiers do. Sons and grandsons of Viennese hofschneider (court tailors), the current Scheiners expanded their Vienna business, opened branches in Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp. It is their boast that many a London blood travels all the way to Antwerp to have his trousers fitted by either Benno, Leo, Marco or Emil. Because some U. S. tycoons do likewise the Scheiners decided to open a fourth branch in Manhattan...
Astronomers lecturing for the Friday night series this winter have been Leo Goldberg, of New Bedford, a Bemis Fellow of the Harvard Observatory; Samuel L. Thorndike, Research Associate of the Observatory; Miss Francis Wright, Astronomical Assistant of Princeton University, now working at Harvard: Horace Taylor, of Brookline, past president of the Bond Astronomical Club: Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer of Harvard; Dr. Bart J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard; Miss Edith Jones, of Waldron, Ind., second year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Miss Barbara Cherry, of West Roxbury, first year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Dantel Norman...
...preparing sample orations, the men will deliver them before the Class Day Committee, which will choose one for the honor of speaking on Class Day. Sample orations must be prepared by May . Members of the judging committee are: Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr., Gorge w. Blackwood, William B. Gavin, Jr., Leo a. Ecker, George S. Ford, Ernest A. Gray, Jr., and William H. Schmidt...
These considerations were set forth last week in an article called "Unscientific Measurement in Athletics," published in Scientific American by Dr. Paul H. Kirkpatrick, associate professor of Physics at Stanford University. It was just chance that Torrance's throw came out in even inches. Leo Sexton's 1932 Olympic shot-put record was measured at 52 ft. 6 3/161n. And Dr. Kirkpatrick's point is that the fractional-inch measurements indulged in by track officials are, scientifically considered, so much poppycock. A truly conscientious measurement would have to take into consideration important geographical, physical and atmospheric factors...