Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precisely at 8 a. m. punctual Peruvian officers sat down with a great clinking of spurs and clattering of swords in Lima last week to do something about the jaunty 19-year-old youth who had punctured President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru with a bullet in church (TIME, March...
With the help of Mrs. Henry Draper of New York City, who established the Henry Draper Memorial, and of the Bache fund for the erection of an Observatory at a high altitude, four photographic telescopes were installed between 1885 and 1890, two in Cambridge and two in Peru. Up to the present time, these four telescopes have taken 142,000 plates. The results of a study of these plates include the discovery of the first spectroscopic binary; of one thousand variable stars in globular clusters and elsewhere; of ten novae; a spectral classification of 225,000 stars, and an international...
...generous gift of $50,000 from Miss Catherine Bruce of New York City, a 24-inch Doublet was ordered by Professor Pickering from Alvan Clarke and Sons, and was sent to the southern station at Arequipa, Peru, elevation 8000 feet. Although this unprecedented size for a doublet was strongly criticized in those days, the glass has been effective and is responsible for 16,000 negatives in the Harvard collection, most of them 14 by 17 inches in size...
...time, to say farewell to the Nobel Laureate of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. Accompanied by Mrs. Compton and their elder son Arthur Alan, he will start on a 20,000-mi. tour of Pacific mountain tops. To the tops of mountains in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii and Alaska he will lug a 250-lb. machine to study the characteristics of the puzzling cosmic rays which Dr. Millikan has made his own. The study will supplement similar studies which Dr. Compton made in the Rocky Mountains last summer, in the Alps last October...
...Karl Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of Chicago was persuasive. A Carnegie Foundation grant was available, and the University helped out further with equipment. So off put Distinguished Dr. Compton, not to Princeton, but to Panama and Peru on cosmic quest...