Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitter," wrote Cartoonist Low of President Roosevelt, "from the waist up alive and on the move all the time, ruffling his hair, throwing his arms about, twisting his body, turning his face to the ceiling, laughing too much, either opening his mouth or distorting its shape by wedging his cigaret holder too far to the side. He may be a swell President, but he doesn't know how to pose for his portrait...
...West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such theories "folly," assailed the views of Expansionists Eddington, Lemaitre, Hubble, De Sitter in 1,000 exasperated words...
...scholars often disagree for years on end, debating, compromising, and surrendering as integrity of intellect dictates. Politicians disagree and debate, but elections decide issues and while a office, the victors are Doers. President Roosevelt invited professors and scholars to take an active hard in government four years ago. They sitter and winnowed and had to announce the results immediately Shortly after they did, the Republicans howled at the bumbling theories...
...Crawford, Portraitist Newman is the daughter of a one-time Democratic National Committeeman, traces her ancestry on her mother's side directly to Charlemagne. Named Azadia after a section of Washington's Rock Creek Park which was once the family estate, she signs her paintings Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk about caring for my teeth." Crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester, Va. was pretty, brunette Cornelia Ann Larus, 20, daughter of Richmond Tobacco Tycoon Lewis Griffin...
...were startled when he said he was no longer sure of this. But there was no particular reason for excitement on this score. Following the General Theory of Relativity (1915) Einstein erected a cosmos whose radius turned out to be 32,000,000,000 light years. But Willem de Sitter worked out a universe in which space itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe fell into general disfavor, without at all impairing the General Theory of Relativity. Four years ago Einstein...