Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding...
...from Harvard faculty members: President, George Howard Parker, Professor of Zoology and Director of the Zoological Laboratory; Vice-President for Class II, Walter Bradford Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; Vice-President for Class III, Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History; Vice-President for Class IV, Arthur Stanley pease '02, professor of Latin and Walter Channing Cabot Fellow; Recording Secretary, Walter Eugene Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series...
...lecture, which is part of the Darwin Lectureship, will be delivered in Burlington House at the time when Dr. Shapley is awarded the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. Previous recipients of the medal were Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein...
...Frederick J. Bertolet 2L, Wallace L. Pierce '35, Andrew G. Webster '36, Charles S. Houston '35, Robert C. Creel '34, Philip M. Tucker '34, Richard C. Boys '35, Theodore H. Sheafe '36, William P. Haskell '36, Gardner E. Prouty '36, George B. Lauriat '36, William B. Tabler '36, J. Stanley Lang '36, Carl J. Vilter '35, James W. Tower '35, Donald B. Bates '35, Elwood K. Salls '34, John D. Kernan '34, George H. Damon '34, Donald S. Carmichael '35, Elliott K. Shapira '35, Frank E. Wood...
Synthesis. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is irked by such caution, says it reminds him of the clergyman who wrote his wife: "I shall be home (God willing) on Friday, and in any case by Saturday." By mathematical means Sir Arthur has arrived at a value for lambda, the cosmical constant of repulsion which scatters the universe, and his lambda value would have the nebulae receding at even greater speeds than the observed velocities. This work incidentally enabled him to compute the total number of protons and electrons in the universe: 10 79 (ten followed by 78 zeros...