Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Discussion (by Author Carl Van Doren, Cornell English Professor David Daiches, Educator Lyman Bryson) of John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government, concluding a series of 16 broadcasts on the growth of Western society...
...this way the particles grow at the expense of the separate atoms. They get bigger & bigger. Gradually they drift together. Part of the force which makes them concentrate, said Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr. of Yale, is gravitational attraction between the particles. More important: the pressure which radiation from the surrounding stars exerts to pack them into a thick, globular swarm...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Speakers: Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, CBS Adviser Lyman Bryson, Cornell University English Professor David Daiches...
...legend of the Copey readings is a part of the Kitty-Copey-Bliss tradition well remembered by latter-day Harvard men. Of the other members of the trio, George Lyman Kittredge '82 is gone, and Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus, is inactive...
...Reisner bequest will fill out Harvard's haphazard collection of detective stories, started by such mystery-loving professors as the late George Lyman Kittredge. History-conscious Harvard keeps them for research purposes, buys a half dozen new titles every year because they reflect "part of the American scene." It 'makes no attempt to circulate them widely. Says Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf uneasily: "We are a research library, and I should think that anyone who wanted a detective story would go to some other library...