Word: ross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend George A. J. Ross, Professor of Homiletics in the Union Theological Seminary. New York, will deliver the William Belden Noble lecture this evening in Emerson J at 8 o'clock. The general subject for this series is "Why Preach Christ, while the particular topic for this lecture. "Why a Community of Faith...
...puzzled U. S. editors cabled their doubts to Paris, the statement of M. Poincaré was irascibly repeated by his Chef de Cabinet. Thereupon a circular order was sent out by leading U. S. news services to all correspondents: "Keep on lookout for Young." As though he had been Charlie Ross, the wilfully elusive Chief Executive of two huge corporations was sought for everywhere that...
...nearer the North are Pinehurst, Camden, Asheville, Aiken, Augusta, where the Southeast begins. One can take ship from Boston to Charleston or from New York to Miami or Savannah. ¶ Southbound golfers often head for the places where their favorite professionals hold forth. At Pinehurst are Donald and Alec Ross; at Augusta, Dave and Alec Ogilvie; at Belleair, Alex Smith. Gene Sarazen is at New Port Ritchey, Fla. At Miami Beach is Willie Klein; at St. Augustine, National Open Champion Johnny Farrell. Jock Hutchison is still a fixture at Nassau in the offshore Bahamas...
Then press and science joined in mutual courtesy. The New York Times, which is supporting Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic expedition, wirelessed him Captain Wilkins' achievement. The message went 10,000 miles to the Ross sea where Commander Byrd, last week, was ice-locked on his City of New York. He rewired the Times an invitation to Captain Wilkins: "Hearty congratulations on your splendid flight. Don't forget you will find a warm welcome if you fly to our base." This message the Times forwarded by land telegraph to the Examiner in San Francisco...
...telescope locates the position of the zenith with respect to the stars with the order of accuracy of about a hundredth of a second of arc, which corresponds to a foot on the earth's surface. Several thousands of such observations for latitude were made some time ago by Ross at Gaithersburg, Maryland, one of the stations of the International Latitude Survey. It was the recent analysis of this series of observations that brought to light the variation of nearly a tenth of a second of arc in latitude, depending upon the altitude of the moon. The maximum value occurs...