Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack, nor warp with heat...
...England. General Electric last week apparently accepted a subordinate place in England's electrical industry. Its British Thomson-Houston Co. sold a majority of its common shares to the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. which controls other electrical concerns. But British Thomson-Houston's chairman, H. C. Levis, is to be Metropolitan-Vickers' chairman. Hence the deal was a consolidation of similar interests, not a G. E. sell...
HARVARD FRESHMAN ANDOVERRecord, Thomson, l.e. r.e., Wright, BrunnerFinlayson, Flynn, Wolcott, l.t. r.t., Kidder, MacDougallMyerson, Ginnman, Coyle, l.g. r.g., Westfall, StebbinsCunningham, Fitzgeraid, c. c., Crane, R. JacksonForestall, Draper, r.g. l.g., Steketee, DavisTaxon, Kuehn, r.t. l.t., Osborne, BatchelderMoushigian, Appel, Nickerson, r.e. l.e., Broaca, Kimball, Scott, ChaffeeWood, Gleason, Fink, q.b. q.b., Wheeler, C. Williamson, BrownWhite, Mays, l.h.b. r.h.b., L. Churchill, Chapman, GardnerGilligan, Crickard, r.h.b. l.h.b., King, C. Churchill, Keesling, WilsonDevens, Blanchard, f.b. f.b., Vivianno, Newto
Worse still, Sir Leo's arrest seemed significant of a distressing trend, for it came as the fourth of a series of similar arrests of British Knights with young women in Hyde Park. The other Knights are Sir Basil Home Thomson, onetime Chief of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Scotland Yard (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), secondly Sir Arthur Evans, famed archeologist, discoverer of buried civilizations in Crete, and most reprehensively of all Sir Almeric Fitzroy, onetime Clerk of His Majesty's Privy Council and intimate of that late & lusty monarch Edward...
...simple satisfactory cure for cancer of the larynx was reported by Sir St. Clair Thomson of London, president of the Royal Society of Medicine. The one essential is an early diagnosis; the operation is a laryngo-fissure, free from danger to voice or patient. Twenty five years' experience; 70 laryngo-fissures, resulted in 34 patients still alive, 32 who lived from 3 to 19 years after the operation without recurrence of the disease...