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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Menzel has won this prize three times out of the six that it has been awarded since 1926. He won the first prize offered in 1926 when associated with the Lick Observatory at the University of California. In 1828 he shared it with P. R. Gerasimovie of the Harvard College Observatory for a paper on which they collaborated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menzel Awarded $500 For Stellar Research | 1/6/1948 | See Source »

John Kemper's earliest memories are of life as an Army brat, trailing his father, an infantry officer, from post to post, getting a lick-&-a-promise schooling. At West Point, John managed the lacrosse team and was president of the class of '35. Four years later, he went back to the Point to teach history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Found in the Pentagon | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...cannot lick something with nothing," Wallace says. "You cannot stop UMT without putting something better before the American people." He goes on to advocate universal disarmament and a world police force as a possible alternative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace Body Hits Militarist Policies in US | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

Wagnerian Soprano Helen Troubel went into a Dallas hospital to lick a "stubborn low-grade" infection after an attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Vapor Blends. Human beings are harder to test. Their smelling apparatus is deeply buried in the upper nasal passages, where it cannot be blocked off from the vapors by heat-transparent barriers. Beck & Miles hope to lick this problem somehow when they get an infra-red spectrometer for studying the wavelength of fragrances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Noses | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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