Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the best known timepiece in the world is Big Ben, giant clock atop the Houses of Parliament. His Majesty's Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson revealed in London last week that Big Ben was not only one of the most famed, but, for an old clock, one of the most accurate of timepieces. After a 288-day comparison with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (Astronomer Dyson's special charge) it was found that Big Ben's maximum deviation was only 1.4 sec. per day, that only on 21 days in the whole period of observation...
Callers. First to call on President Hoover last week were Senators Watson, Republican Leader, and Moses, the Senate's President pro tempore. Their request: that the President consent to postponing Treaty action until after the November elections instead of at a special-for-Senators-only session immediately following the present one. Dolefully Leader Watson explained that the Senate had been in continuous session for 16 months and was exhausted. He warned that at a special session the Senate was likely to walk out on the President and leave his Treaty dangling midair, either by voting to adjourn sine...
...general conference of the Seventh-Day Adventists. They now have 299,555 members, estimate the net worth of denominational organizations and institutions at $30,967,235 and their 1929 total income from all parts of the world at $45,596,941. They elected as president the Rev. C. H. Watson of Sydney, Australia...
After an inconclusive caucus of Republican Senators, Senate Leader Watson telephoned President Hoover that Congressional sentiment was against treaty action at this time, asked him if he would really call a special Senate session for that purpose. President Hoover assured him that he would. Whereupon Senator Watson solemnly announced: "A special session now seems necessary and has been decided on." Senator Watson "hoped" Congress would "clean up" its pending legislative program?tariff, rivers & harbors development, veterans' aid, motor bus regulation?by the end of June and adjourn...
...Forum afforded faltering Century honorable refuge from a life which, while eminently respectable, had become in recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn Frank...