Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plaskett, director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B. C., has just arrived at Harvard to spend two or three weeks. He is a special student of the rotation of the Galaxy, and has in his charge the second largest telescope in the world, the property of the Government of Canada. Dr. Plaskett is the father of Professor H. H. Plaskett of the Harvard Observatory...
Said Secretary of War James William Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be unable to play large universities like Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Illinois...
Outstanding 1929 Carnegie medalists were aquatic heroes. Two silver medals were awarded. One went to Miss Barbara H. Miller, 22, Charleston, S. C. student. for braving an ocean undertow which had vanquished several men, to rescue a drowning woman. The other, with a monthly death benefit, was awarded to the widow of Edward R. Grundy. At Miami Beach. Fla., Grundy swam out to a drowning woman, clutched her, battled the undertow desperately for 20 minutes. When another swimmer reached them, Hero Grundy was dead...
Married. Weston R. Shipstead, 20, Washington preparatory school student, son of Minnesota's dentist-Senator Henrik Shipstead; and a Miss Hazel E. Thompson, 21, beauty shoppe operator; after eloping to Rockville...
...longing to become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother, impressed, promised that he should go to art school. In 1906 after a few years of study with mediocre landscapists, Modigliani went to Paris where he was described as a "serious looking student who read Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios boiled with the revolutionary ideas of the Fauves (Wild Beasts)* and no intelligent young painter could ignore them. Modigliani quickly exhausted his Italian academism, delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse...