Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each chapter is written by a top-drawer expert (Kirtley Mather, Charles Franklin Brooks, Bart Jan Bok, Charles A. Federer Jr., Ralph Waldo Gerard and others), in chatty, informal style, simply illustrated, and at high-school level. No textbook, Science from Shipboard cuts ruthlessly across academic boundaries between the sciences, starts each topic with a direct human experience. Sample (by Harvard's Mather): "Like every ocean traveler you will be thrilled by each glimpse of land. . . . The most important idea that should be in your mind as you look at any shore is the fundamental fact that...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...
Simultaneously with Mather's lecture it was reported that a new volcano in Mexico had erupted, building up a cone 1000 feet high and driving inhabitants from a nearby town. The University is sending an expedition today to study the developments of the new volcano...
Ideal conditions in Mexico for investigation of volcanic activity and earthquakes, were pointed out by Kirt F. Mather, professor of Geology, in an illustrated lecture delivered yesterday to the visiting Mexican delegation, headed by Francisco Najera, ambassador to this country...
Soldier's Medal (no compilation). Sample case: Sergeant James C. Bowers, who was on hand when a Mather Field, Calif. warehouse caught fire. He entered at great personal danger, removed boxes of burning flares and extinguished the fire...