Word: millman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrities, one of those who improve?" Carr makes her question superfluously rhetorical. Like Inheritance (TIME, Sept. 12), Carr is a novel of Yorkshire, its background the textile industry of the West Riding.* Hero Carr's father was an absconding scoundrel, but that did not prevent Millman Ainsley from paying for young Carr's education, taking him into the mill and making him junior partner in Carr, Carr & Ainsley. In return, Carr was supposed to be a credit to the firm and to marry Ainsley's nice but not very attractive daughter Catherine. Carr was a success...
...shaded tail, which may have been between 50 and 100 miles long." One million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere each hour, become incandescent from friction. But rarely are astronomers able to photograph the hot spots and analyze the spectra. Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between 2,600° and 4,600° F.). One or more contained calcium, manganese, aluminum, chromium. Three containing magnesium burned greenishly...
...Payne. The following week, on Friday, January 20, a discussion entitled "Exploring the Sun" will be delivered by Dr. Menzel. Continuing on Friday nights, the subjects and talkers are as follows: "Touring the Planets," Leon Campbell, instructor in Astronomy; "The What and Why of Schooling Stars," Dr. P. M. Millman: "In Quest of Comets," Dr. F. L. Whipple: "Unravelling Stellar Secrets". Dr. A. J. Cannon: "The Insides of Stars". Dr. Payne: "The Worlds of Gas," Dr. R. J. Hok. Wilson Teaching Fellow: "The Chemistry of Interstellar Space." V. B. Andrews '2b instructor in Astronomy: and "The Chemistry of Evolution." Harlew...
...Millman Parry, assistant professor of Greek, will address the Dunster House Forum tonight after supper in the Junior Common Room, and lead a discussion on the value of the study of the classics. This is the second in a series of meetings to be held this year by the Forum...
...speed with which a meteor enters the stratosphere," Millman remarked, "tells whether it came from solar or interstellar space. The average speed of a meteor is 40 miles a second. Those coming toward the earth with a greater velocity are apparently from outside the solar system...