Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in which he told a story from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective Holmes, said Mathematician Darwin, was using the real scientific method. Another tidbit of popular science disclosed...
...teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates became even more uncomfortable (though some cheered) when Professor Goodwin Watson, of Columbia's Teachers College, praised the cooperative achievements of Soviet Russia and sneered at New York City's World's Fair as "ballyhoo for business, a coming to gigantic life of the advertisements in the expensive magazines...
...important gathering. There was grey-haired Arthur Vining Davis, for 29 years president or chairman of huge Aluminum Co. of America. There was stocky Thurman Wesley Arnold, law professor lately made Assistant Attorney General in charge of trustbusting. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Davis was redhaired, big-boned William Watson Smith, Alcoa's trial lawyer for some 25 years. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Arnold was spry, young Walter Lyman Rice, only ten years out of Harvard Law but already a potent trustbuster. It was he and James Lawrence Fly who broke the Sugar Institute in 1933. Big as was that...
...Cronkhite '38. Du Pont fellowship, Willard Weaver Ransom, 3G. George H. Emerson-scholarships to: Saul G. Cohen, 1G. John B. Lyons, '38, Edmund W. Sinnott Jr. '38, Ralph I. Smith '38. Charles Haven Goodwin scholarship, Allen R. Hyde 2G. Ozias Goodwin memorial fellowship, Harvey S. Perloff 2G. William Watson Goodwin, fellowships to: Albert H. Travis 2G, Frederic Peachy 2G. Harris fellowship, Lawrence W. Newton, University of Wichita. Priscilla Clark Hodges scholarship, Vincent G. Dethier 2G. Albert and Anna Howard fellowship, John R. Grant 2G. John Thornton Kirkland fellowship, Baranby C. Keeney 2G. Henry Lee memorial fellowship, Daniel C. Vandermeulen...
...University of Michigan; the 38th annual Big Ten track & field championships; for the 16th year; with a total of 61½ points to which Negro Bill Watson contributed most individually when he won the discus, shot-put and broad jump and placed third in the high jump; at Columbus, Ohio. Runner-up was Wisconsin with 37 points. Tailender was Northwestern with...