Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week bustling little Sociology Professor Ernest Watson Burgess adjusted his spectacles and began to read a long, technical paper to his class at the University of Chicago. As the 51-year-old bachelor proceeded, his marriageable students became more and more attentive. When he finished, he had given them a test-proof formula for choosing a wife or husband, for predicting whether a marriage would be successful...
Four of the eleven are entered in the high hurdles, Mason Fernald '40, Sherman Hoar '40, Donald Donahue '41, and Roger Schafer '41. The Sophomore and Freshman hurdlers are up against the country's strongest competition, with record holders Sam Allen, "Spec" Towns, Jack Donovan, and Bill Watson running...
...Lucile Watson is wondrously wise and imperturbable as the mother with career and past. Violet Heming is duly volatile and saccharine as a sister-in-law who is a pioneer in another field; that of making annual pilgrimages to Reno, Nevada. Nicholas Joy is perfectly suave and self-possessed as the ex-Communist poet. Haila Stoddard, making her debut in the part of the darling daughter, proves herself a highly capable actress and creates great expectations...
William S. Knudsen (General Motors) $459,878; Actor Gary Cooper $370.214; Actor Ronald Colman $362,500; Actress Claudette Colbert $350.833; Thomas J. Watson (International Business Machines) $342.008; Spyros Skouras (theatres) $341.009; Actress Mae West $323,333; Vincent Fitzgerald (G. L. Ohrstrom & Co. Inc.) $320.296; Charles F. Kettering (General Motors) $304.400; Rudy Vallee $238.744; Eugene Grace (Bethlehem Steel) $180.000; Alfred E. Smith (Empire State...
...medical examiner of Newark, N. J. This week Dr. Martland is scheduled to deliver a popular lecture in Manhattan on the peculiar lore of his field. Remembering that the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor before he began writing detective fiction, Dr. Martland entitled his talk, "Dr. Watson and Mr. Sherlock Holmes...