Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout man, like his colleagues Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Albert Einstein, is Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton. Irreverent University of Chicago students nickname the beetle-browed physicist "Holy." Even more than most scientists he participates in the institutional activities of religion; as deacon of Hyde Park Baptist...
...lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 27), gangling Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair ("Red") Lewis told newsmen that nothing in the world as he finds it annoys him. Asked one reporter: "Does the poverty in the world annoy you, Mr. Lewis?" Annoyed, Author Lewis jumped up, flared: "Don't you try to make a damn fool out of me, young man. God did that already, and you don't need to try to help...
...hear him that a special conference was arranged. Dr. Charles Thomas Zahn of the University of Michigan, who had been independently working along the same line, was summoned by telegraph, arrived, reported that he was unable to confirm the Jauncey results. Zahn, however, had used a differently arranged apparatus. Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago, a onetime colleague of Jauncey's at St. Louis, pored over his experiments, pronounced them competently done but would not commit himself as to their validity. Dr. Compton added somewhat superfluously that they would be of great importance...
...nations signed the Kellogg-Briand pact, renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes. Next year, Frank Billings Kellogg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for sponsoring it. Last week, in St. Paul, Statesman Kellogg, 81, died of pneumonia (see p. 41). His death and that of onetime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker coincided ironically with his country's gravest international crisis since 1917, a crisis caused by the war between China and Japan upon which the only discernible influence of the Kellogg Pact was the fact that both sides had politely refrained from declaring...
...still goes on. Last fortnight, Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis strode jerkily onto a platform in Manhattan, and with hands in pockets, galvanic shrugs and many a wisecrack, proceeded to deliver his eighth lecture of the season. An explosive, rapid-fire attack on stage censorship, Reds, Fascists and Ernest Hemingway, the lecture was entitled It Has Happened Here. Next month he will repeat his performance in Albuquerque, N. Mex. That same week in Upper Montclair, N. J., Salvador de Madariaga will be going on about The Future of Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids...