Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expert with creative theories of his own, or enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
...Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa...
...Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone, his manner, his essential character...
Alfred Lee Loomis, banker (Bonbright & Co.), electro-physicist (effects of high frequency sound waves) had as guest at his splendid private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...
Less fortunate than the Wildwood osprey were the grackles of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Lacking a mediator, these birds, noisy, gregarious, were last week slaughtered in hundreds by police shotguns to please Mount Vernon slugabeds...