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Word: tolman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...21st of her successful presidency. That was modest President Reinhardt's concession to the Manhattan fund-raising firm of Tamblyn & Brown, who needed an Occasion to help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband bought the school in 1865 and who was its president until she resigned in 1909, aged 83. By week's end far-flung meetings of Mills alumnae, who include Mrs. Hiram Johnson and Mrs. William Edgar Borah, had pledged $252,000 to Mills's endowment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Presidents | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...around his mathematical edifice. He has done some mending himself, particularly on the shape of the cosmos, and he is glad to have other mathematicians drop in for a little tinkering. Modern relativity theory in fact owes a great deal to the carpentry of Weyl, Milne, Lemaitre, Born, Eddington, Tolman and others. But the good professor keeps a sharp eye on the craftsmanship of his colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Open for Repairs | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Major Edgar B. Tolman, Editor-in-Chief of the American Bar Association Journal has repeatedly criticized this symbol, and when Senator Carter Glass in the United States Senate demanded an amendment of the bill to which you refer, he read into the record of the Senate Justice O'Connor's opinion along with the criticisms made by John W. Davis of New York and the Honorable George W. Wickersham. And again in May of 1935 the Illinois Appellate Court spoke on this subject in the case of City National Bank v. Davis Hotel Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

HARVARD BROWN England, g. g., Tolman Wemple, r.f.b. r.f.b., Thodford Stent, l.f.b. l.f.b., Hunt Roosevelt, r.h.b. r.h.b., Watson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hart Gummere, l.h.b. l.h.b., Howard Grover, r.o.f. r.o.f., Dyer Clos, r.i.f. r.i.f., Conner Manheimer, c.f. c.f., Murray Stork, l.i.f. l.i.f., Knott Baxter, l.o.f. l.o.f., Allen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS MEET BROWN IN GAME THIS AFTERNOON AFTER TWO TIES AND WIN | 11/11/1933 | See Source »

Laureate Millikan: "No controversy!" Pulsating Universe. While cheerful Professor Albert Einstein steamed through the Panama Canal last week on his way to California Institute of Technology, Caltech's optimistic cosmologists were at Atlantic City-Dr. Millikan fighting for his cosmic ray theory (see above). Dr. Richard Chace Tolman presenting a reasonable picture of a pulsating universe. It is true, reasoned Dr. Tolman, that the stars are blazing into heat & light, that as far as we can see the universe is expanding, and some eon may become dull chaos, as the Cambridge physicists reason. But, if we use Einsteinian concepts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. at Atlantic City | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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