Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists in Britain are more concerned with Science-in-Society than Julian Sorell Huxley. This owl-eyed, quick-thinking, quick-talking biologist of 48 is the grandson of the 19th Century's brilliant Biologist-Essayist Thomas Henry Huxley, the brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley, the grandnephew of Matthew Arnold. His most recent endeavors have been a tour of industrial and academic laboratories in Britain (Science & Social Needs), an examination of Science in Russia (A Scientist Among the Soviets), two popularizations written with a collaborator (Simple Science and More Simple Science}, a detailed blow-up of Nazi race theory...
From concerts by the Boston Symphony under Dr. Koussevitzky to those by the Works Project Administration's Orchestra, and from Bach's St. Matthew Passion as sung by the Glee Club to "Little Buttercup" as sung by the same chorus, Harvard offers a host of opportunities in the field of music. Not only does the University benefit from the artistic life in its own community but it also profits immeasurably from the numerous contacts with musical activities in Boston...
...Manhattan, reaching the retirement age of 70 Negro Matthew Alexander Henson quit his clerkship at the Customs House. An unsung U. S. hero, Henson made eight trips to the Arctic with the late Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary. On April 6, 1909 he and Explorer Peary fell asleep after warming their frozen feet on each other's stomachs, woke to find they had slumbered over the North Pole. Elated, Negro Henson led three Eskimos in three whooping cheers while Explorer Peary planted the U. S. flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln...
Dentists smiled at such punning, wished it would stop. As he was about to turn over A. D. A.'s presidency to Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson ('"Roy") Miner of Boston last week, Dr. George Ben Winter, St. Louis exodontist (specialist in tooth pulling), observed that only a hundred years ago all U. S. dentists were "drawn from the ranks of the artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths and barbers." Since then dentists have improved in knowledge, skill and culture. Yet so halting has been their social progress that an official A. D. A. committee last week was obliged to report...
...cinema, performed on the radio, helped produce a revue (New Faces), married a salesman 16 years her junior. Last week Miss Janis, now 47, an nounced her intention to carry out literally Christ's command, Go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor (Matthew...