Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Margot Einstein, 21, sculptress daughter of Professor Albert Einstein, physicist; and Dr. Dimitri Marianov, Russian scientist-writer who with Fraülein Einstein lately accompanied Sir Rabindranath Tagore on a tour of Soviet Russia's schools; in a Berlin registry office...
...Beta Kappa means "Learning at the Helm of Life." But Heaven help the ship of state that has a scholar for a pilot. Today perhaps a scientist can chart the seven seas, but it takes a captain with control and leadership to batten down the hatches. The Phi Beta key, its advocates announce, can open many doors, but hatches, are something else again. And anyway, too many males have left their coats quite carelessly unbuttoned for the abdominal honor to be considered a master key to the most exclusive dwellings...
...latest excursion ended up in the Mineralogy lecture room in the depths of the Geology Museum where Professor Palache was lecturing on Diamonds. The subject was a fascinating one, but what aroused the interest of the Vagabond even more was the personality of Dr. Palache. Here was the scientist type at its best. A rather elderly bearded man whose enthusiasm for his subject was apparent in every phrase contrived to transmit his enthusiasm to the audience whose absorbed interest made them hang on every word. Incidentally, Professor Palache is one of the world's authorities on diamonds, and tomorrow...
...Because it was a special occasion, Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, Honorary Lecturer at King's College, London, was invited to make a speech to the curators, trustees, members. Professor Huxley, whose favorite recreation is "bird-watching," had much to say which a naturalist would find interesting. A distinguished scientist in his own right, he is the grandson of the late famed Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), popularizer of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Professor Huxley complimented the Bostonians on their century's work, emphasized the need for instructing the public in natural history. To illustrate...
...Author. Maurice Maeterlinck, 68, Belgian mystic, playwright, scientist, does not live in Belgium because he says Belgium does not approve of artists. In his villa near Nice he lives with his young second wife (he divorced Georgette LeBlanc in 1919). Other books: The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird, Pellcas et Melisande...