Word: schuylers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Schuyler Falls. N. Y. 47 years ago, Bridges found himself some years later in a zoology class at Columbia which Dr. Morgan had agreed to take while the regular professor was away. Dr. Morgan changed the young man's general interest in science to a specific one in genetics. Bridges haunted Dr. Morgan's office, asked if help was not needed with the bottles of flies. Morgan replied gently that trained assistants were what he needed. Undaunted, Bridges kept coming back. One day he spotted a fly with vermilion eyes instead of the normal...
Philippa Duke Schuyler, 4, daughter of a Manhattan Negro writer, startles visitors by repeatedly spelling pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoniosis,* informing them that it is the longest word in the English language. A forceful pianist, a determined rhymester, an avid reader of fourth grade books, Philippa has the added distinction of never having eaten cooked food...
...activities. The Senate always dawdles, but the House, under the rule of strong Speakers, has a tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been tempted to point out that it was time for the House to live up to its tradition...
Born. To Sarah Schuyler Butler Lawrence, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, and Captain Neville Lawrence, London banker: a son; in London...
Died. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, 56, Denver oilman and lawyer, U. S. Senator from Colorado during the last short-term session of Congress, onetime attorney for Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome witness; of injuries suffered July 17 when he was struck by an automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...