Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominees for directors for one year are as follows: From Harvard at large: Dean Leighton and Alfred C. Redfield '13, professor of Physiology. From M. I. T.: Horace S. Ford, treasurer of the Institute, and Carroll L. Wilson assistant in the President's office...
Most other British universities where experimental physics holds high rank have onetime Cavendish men as department heads. Three men (Thomson, Aston and Wilson) were awarded Nobel Prizes while working at Cavendish. Rutherford was already a Nobel Laureate when he went from Manchester to Cavendish. Chadwick got his Nobel Prize a month after he had left Cavendish for Liverpool. Among the foreign bigwigs who have studied at Cavendish are two other Nobelists: Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago. This bombardment of laurels seems exceedingly likely to continue...
...going became tough for Tradition in the plans for the Calvert family of Los Angeles (income $3,000 to $4,000), for whom Modernist William Wilson Wurster's graceful patio house out-pointed Traditionalist H. Roy Kelley's "California Colonial." A walkaway for the moderns was provided by Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Blackbourn family of Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury...
...Paris, the authoritative Beaux-Arts magazine noted Queen Elizabeth's recent purchase of a painting by Wilson Steer and a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John. Added the Beaux-Arts: this was the first occasion since before the reign of Charles I (1625-49) that the British Royal Family has acquired a picture solely for its artistic merits...
...John W. Wilson, of Durham, N. C., as Instructor in Biochemical Sciences and Tutor and Assistant in the Fatigue Laboratory...