Word: pearson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impeccably written, The Shining Hour is shored up by the intricately modulated performance of patrician Gladys Cooper and the able assistance of Adrianne Allen. Daughter of a journalist, wife of a publisher (Sir Neville Pearson), conspicuous on the British stage for 20 years before last week's U. S. début, Gladys Cooper manages London's Playhouse Theatre, has three children...
...being carried away by the Fun of It All with no though of the implications of their wild brainstorms, beyond attaining the goal of oppressive collectivism. While it is perfectly true that Washington could do very well with a dozen economists above the stature of Messrs. Warren and Pearson, and could tap the expertise resources of the country with more discretion than it has shown so far, it is not true, nevertheless, that those of the Left Wing are either blind to the possibilities of their measures, or, on the other hand, filled with the shining vision of the Kremlin...
...speed of the rotating mirror, the number of facets, the length of the tube. But Dr. Michelson. insisting on precision, working feverishly against the paralysis creeping upon him, died before his tests were complete (TIME, May 18, 1931). Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of Mt. Wilson Observatory and Fred Pearson, longtime and loyal Michelson assistant, went on spinning the mirror, looking through the eyepiece, making charts...
Last spring they issued a terse, tight-lipped announcement that they had completed actual measurements, would need six months to check their data, iron out some unaccountable variations. In the Pease-Pearson report last week the variations, up to 12 mi. per sec., were stunningly unaccounted for, were apparently real fluctuations in the speed of light. Worse, they were not irregular but seemed to occur in well-defined rhythms. There was one cycle of 14¾ days, another of about a year, another apparently following the tides of the ocean. And at 9 p. m. every night something happened which...
...George Chester Doyle 23 PERMANENT CLASS COMMITTEE *Bradford Simmons 278 *Stanton Whitney, Jr. 250 *James Thurber Dennison 199 *Chester Harding King, Jr. 180 *Carl Albert Pescosolido 180 *John Moore Morse 179 Taggert Whipple 159 Andrew Eliot Ritchie, Jr. 149 Clifton Lane Jackson 134 Charles Aston Rossiter 122 Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Jr. 119 William Thomas Piper, Jr. 109 Henry Ehrlich, 2d 91 John Parker Hale Chandler, Jr. 76 Harry Morris Plotkin 55 ALBUM COMMITTEE *David Weld 299 *James Parton 219 *Sidney Carroll 217 *Gordon Chase Streeter 210 *Henry Charles Thacher 175 George Huntington Damon 167 Cyrus Leo Sulzberger 152 Richard Lawrence...