Word: melvin
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Those receiving the degree of A.B., summa cum laude, are as follows: Melvin Leon Anshen, of Boston; Ralph Philip Boas, Jr., of Norton; John Coert Campbell, of Bronxiville, New York; Sidney Cohen, of Lynn; Albert Charles England, Jr., of Pittsfield; Henry Caraway Hatfield, of Evanston, Illinois; Richard Inglis, Jr., of South Euclid, Ohio; Henry Touchman Levin of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Robert Caffrey Liddon Jr., of Corinth, Mississippi; Knight Warner McMahan, of Flora, Illinos; Isadore Paisner, of Brookline, Peter Shuebruk, of Cohasset; Robert Chester Smith, Jr., of Detroit, Michigan; Andrew Joseph Torrielli, of Watertown; Bort Arthur Winter, of East Cleveland, Ohio...
...whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow...
...varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays and Dr. Vesto Melvin Slipher's cosmic radiation (TIME. May 1). Directional studies show that the hiss must originate near the point in the Milky Way toward which the Sun is rushing Earth and the other planets. Researcher Jansky left it to the astrophysicists to say what caused his new galactic waves...
...Wilmington, Del., Melvin Train, garage hand, induced friends in 1921 to invest money in a business enterprise of his brother-in-law, lost their money when his brother-in-law absconded, vowed to remain silent until all losses were made good. Last week he paid off the last creditor, spoke for the first time in eleven years...
...concentration of cosmic radiation as a wedge of zodiacal light at the western horizon. In the autumn the light concentrates at the eastern horizon. One theory of the source of zodiacal light supposes that it is sunlight reflected from small bodies or gas molecules. Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, has another thought-but he did not elaborate it in his Philadelphia lecture...