Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Alford Stevenson is a refutation of George Bernard Shaw's quip: "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." Getting a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1928, he began a teaching career which eventually took him to the Carnegie Institute's School of Life Insurance Salesmanship as director...
...JOHN R. STEVENSON...
...knows has made a hobby of finding out just what the correct picture is--the view novelists like Hardy actually saw as they wrote. This man has tramped around a lot and taken many colored photographs of out-of-the-way places like Egdon Heath and Stevenson's favorite hang-outs. Pictures like his can no doubt help a lot to clear up the hazy perspective of fellows like...
...physicist named Carl David Anderson found anomalies in cosmic-ray behavior which convinced him that, in the upper air particles were being created which were lighter than protons but heavier than electrons, and both positively and negatively charged (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Drs. Jabez Curry Street and Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such a thing to help explain energy exchanges...
...Manhattan the 88th birthday of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was celebrated by proxy by Mrs. Annie Ide Cockran, who has had full and undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...