Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will be among the honorary pallbearers, although he is on a speaking tour and will be unable to be present. Edwin F. Gay, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, will also be absent from the services...
...Lyman Besse Burbank...
Last week Director Lyman J. Briggs of the Bureau of Standards called the difference between the British inch and the U. S. inch "intolerable." The new standard will reduce the inch by 1/508,001 of its present length. Pointing out that the most precise industrial measurements (of wrist pins for piston rods, etc.) are accurate only within one ten-thousandth of an inch, Director Briggs said: "Industry from a practical standpoint will not realize that a change has been made because the change is too small." Not discussed was the effect of a shortened inch on longer measurements: A mile...
With Benchley on the senior Nominating Committee are J. Sinclair Armstrong, Lyman B. Burgank, Joseph Franklin, Elliott B. Knowlton, George F. Lowman and Robert T. Whitman...
Nathaniel G. Benchley heads the Committee of Seniors making the nominations, and the other members of the committee are J. Sinclair Armstrong, Lyman B. Burbank, Joseph Franklin, Elliott B. Knowlton, George F. Lowman, and Robert T. Whitman...