Word: willem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. He declined to cross the U. S. by rail for fear of raucous rabble, pesky newshawks. Frau Einstein was with him to worry over his comforts. He will study at prim, red-roofed California Institute of Technology and the Mount Wilson Observatory for the next two months. Professor Willem de Sitter, another cosmologist, will study with him. Meanwhile in Washington met the American Astronomical Society for its annual interpretation of the heavens. Solar Burst Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory offered a hypothesis that the solar system is composed of the self-adhering fragments of a star...
...Toscanini conduct lately were not surprised when it was announced last week that he would be unable to finish his midwinter engagement with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. Since early in the summer Toscanini has suffered excruciating pain in his right arm. Like many a conductor before him (Leopold Stokowski, Willem Mengelberg, Richard Strauss), he has a sub-deltoid bursitis or "glass arm," an affliction which orchestra leaders and schoolboys get from the same cause. Schoolboys get it from throwing pebbles or crabapples instead of baseballs, conductors from putting too much energy into their waving of a light, non-resistant baton...
...Willem de Sitter though not generally known in America, is the foremost astronomer of the Continent. His current visit to Cambridge is of interest by virtue of his significant and authoritative refutation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The Dutch scientist conceives the universe as being slowly "blown up like a soap-bubble," an idea even more bewildering to the layman than Einstein's "warped space." Though this question is complex enough to make even astronomers' heads swim, its nevertheless illustrative of other disputes that should concern the average man and his beliefs...
...beginning his first; the Seattle Symphony with Karl Krueger. Next week will begin the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Artur Rodzinski, the Minneapolis Symphony with Henri Verbrugghen, the St. Louis Symphony with Vladimir Golschmann, the Milwaukee Philharmonic with Frank Laird Waller. Rochester, N. Y. with different guest conductors, Portland, Ore. (Willem van Hoogstraten), Omaha (Joseph Littau) and Syracuse (Vladimir Shavitch) save their openings for November...
...WILLEM GERARD VAN LOON...