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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fond of visiting archeological sites in his rattletrap automobile that he once had to walk the 18 miles from Bab to Aleppo in pitch darkness because in his eagerness to be off he had not properly strapped on his spare gasoline supply. After John Wilson got Chicago's Ph. D. in Egyptology, Breasted sent him on an expedition to Luxor as epigrapher. For five years he stayed in Egypt. When the heat grew so intense that even the flies died, he fled to Berlin and Munich for more study, went back to Chicago to become assistant professor of Egyptology...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
...shapely, well-dressed, vivacious cytorogist (cell anatomist) who got her master's degree at Columbia, did skin & cancer research in St. Louis, taught botany there, experimented for a time at the Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...
Engaged. Joyce Love Allen, only daughter of Louisiana's Governor Oscar Kelly Allen; and Frederick A. Stare, Ph. D., research chemist at Washington University (St. Louis...
This test was a prime part of Project XS-F2-U25?a scientific investigation of driving skill begun with $14,000 of FERA funds last September under the direction of Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt...