Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RETURN OF THE WEED-Paul Horgan-Harper ($2). A cycle of six lyric short stories dealing with the tenants of some desolate New Mexican ruins-an abandoned mission, a crumbling hacienda, deserted farm houses, a filling station- making a slight but effective book, well-illustrated with lithographs by Peter Kurd...
...committee, selected from a group of 30 Freshmen, recommended by the proctors in the Yard, are: Vinton A. Dearing, Rodman Gilder, Jr., Langdon B. Gilkey, Barton Kelly, Christian M. Lauritzen 2nd, John I. Mahler, Douglas Mercer, James M. E. Mixter, Arthur W. Page, Jr., J. Warren Palm, Peter E. Pratt, Walter T. Ridder, Walter D. Riddle, Jr., and Frank S. Streeter...
...labor and politics as a lobbyist for the A. F. of L. He proved an expert at it, affable, friendly, fair, efficient. He systematically canvassed every member of Congress, treated them to persuasion but not to parties, being himself a teetotaler, having joined in youth the St. Peter & St. Paul Total Abstinence Society...
Last week the Swedish Royal Academy of Science awarded its 1936 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to a profound student of molecular structure, Professor Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye, 52, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. The Prize for Physics was divided between a pioneer cosmic ray researcher, Professor Victor Franz Hess, 53, of Austria's Innsbruck University, and 31-year-old Professor Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, discoverer of a fundamental particle of matter, the positive electron. Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that...
Richard W. Tregaskis '38, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Peter R. Viereck '39, New York City; Eugene H. Walker '37, New York City; John R. Westervelt '37, Maplewood, New Jersey; Paul R. Wiley '37, Bronxville, New York; and Gibson Winter '38, New York City...