Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public lectures on the origin, nature, and influence of relativity will be given on Tuesday and Friday evenings during the next three weeks by Professor George D. Birkhoff '05, professor of mathematics at the University, in the Lowell Institute, Boston. In the first lecture at 8 o'clock this evening, Professor Birkhoff will speak on the men whose studies have contributed to the recent theory of relativity,--"Euclid, Newton, Faraday, and Einstein...
...symposium tomorrow evening is open to the public and is being given under the auspices of the University chapter of Gamma Alpha, the national graduate science society. The first symposium on "The Origin of Life," November 6, was attended by as many that Emerson D could not accommodate them and an overflow meeting was held in Emerson D. the speakers leaving Emerson D as each finished his address and giving it again in Emerson...
...Frank Swinnerton, well known British author and--be it remembered--friend of Sir James, has come over here with his tongue in his cheek and mischief in his eye, bearing a confirmation of faith for all wavering Ashfordites. Mr. Swinnerton has been well coached. His account of the origin of the "Young Visiters" coincides in all important respects with that of its distinguished, though whimsical, sponsor. According to his own statement, Mr. Swinnerton received the manuscript from a friend of Daisy Ashford's while he was a reader in a London publishing house. He showed it to friends and then...
...originator of the sport was a Rugby School boy named William Webb Ellis, who one day a century ago on the football (soccer) field of the famous grade school in England, violated the rules of the game (similar to modern soccer) by picking up the ball and running with it. Here the idea of Rugby, the origin of the popular American game, was conceived...
Antimicrobum tomarkin is the rather unoriginal cognomen of a new and powerful bactericide for the treatment of pneumonia, discovered by Dr. Leander Tomarkin, a young Swiss physician of Russian origin, conducting researches in laboratories at Rome...