Word: moulton
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...Astronomical Society for its annual interpretation of the heavens. Solar Burst Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory offered a hypothesis that the solar system is composed of the self-adhering fragments of a star which exploded of its own accord. The prevailing hypothesis is Dr. Forest Ray Moulton's as modified by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, namely, that a big star once passed near a small star (which men call the Sun), and caused some tidal eruptions, which became planets. Pluto an Accident. It was just a 'lucky accident" that the newest planet Pluto was located...
...Honorable W. C. Walt '82, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Honorable J. M. Morton '91, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; Honorable J. C. Knox, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. For Friday, November 20, Honorable S. R. Moulton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont; Honorable William Hitz '95, Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and Honorable J. A. Lowell '94, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts...
Died. Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, 87, famed agricultural chemist; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. His greatest contribution: the standard means of determining the butterfat content of milk. He refused to patent or exploit his discovery, saying "no one man was large enough to own a key to dairy prosperity." Last year he received the Capper publications' award for distinguished service to agriculture...
Died, Lieut. -Colonel Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, 65, famed British turfman, slum-born, director of Barnato Bros. & Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., mighty syndicates which control the world's diamond output and fix diamond prices; after a long illness; at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, England...
This theory duplicates in large part the planetary theory of the late Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin and Forest Ray Moulton of the University of Chicago. Professor Moulton, now director of Utilities Power & Light Corp. (Chicago), some time ago flayed Sir James for not giving due credit to Chamberlin. Last week Sir James alluded to that attack by indicating that his and the Chamberlin-Moulton theories did differ. In what, his audience did not much care. They were there primarily to look at great men of science...