Word: newcomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longest despatch ever cabled, it was sent by regenerating repeaters over four cables. "An unparalleled feat," said Newcomb Carlton, Western Union President...
Among those who have accepted are: Thomas W. Lamont '92, George W. Wickersham, Dr. George E. Brewer '85, Henry W. Taft, Dr. Charles H. Herty, Robert W. DeForest, Newcomb Carlton '17, H. Bayard Swope, John H. Finley, Arthur M. Howe, Kent Cooper, and Sidney E. Mezes...
...Mary Newcomb is the lady of the title and she retired from the action with the majority of laurel leaves. Virtually unknown before the opening night, she took her place among our leading lady agonizers...
Alexander Woollcott: "Really superb work by Mary Newcomb...
...Germany, Z�llner, Fechner, and Weber, all distinguished scientists, were confirmed spiritualists. In the United States, similar organizations have enjoyed the membership?although few of these men have been more than merely open-minded on the subject?of the late Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins, Simon Newcomb, Edward C. Pickering (astronomers), Henry P. Bowditch, Charles S. Minot, S. Weir Mitchell (physicians), William James, G. Stanley Hall, James Hervey Hyslop (psychologists and philosophers). Dr. Hyslop (died 1920) was the only one of these who could be said to be definitely converted, so much so, in fact, that he gave...