Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was a far more noncommittal gesture than Woodrow Wilson's cablegram to Emperor Franz Josef on Aug. 4, 1914, offering "to act in the interest of European peace." Yet to the increasingly numerous U. S. sympathizers with the Czechs, it was still a gesture. England, France and South America applauded it, Czechoslovakia welcomed it. Upon the one man whom it would do any good to move it had less effect. As the Cabinet convened this week to discuss the deepening European crisis, Adolf Hitler's reply to Washington was a lengthy lecture restating, in more didactic language...
Drawled imperturbable Sir Horace Wilson, Chief Industrial Adviser to His Majesty's Government: "Well, he isn't just going for the ferryboat trip...
...Wilson invented the cloud chamber. This device makes visible the fantastically rapid paths, straight, curved, or broken, of electrons and other subatomic particles. The cloud chamber contains water vapor or other fluid vapor which, suddenly expanded by a piston, condenses along the particle paths in fog droplets that show up in photographs as white streaks...
...slated to do THE LINEUPS HARVARD BROWN Green, l.e. (165) Prodgers, l.e. (168) Healey, l.t. (197) Larkowich, l.t. (197) Mellen, l.g. (175) Manrodt, l.g. (188) Russell, c. (192) Carey, c. (180) Glueck, r.g. (180) Mawhinney, r.g. (182) Booth, r.t. (194) McNeil (203) Daughters, r.e. (181) Finkelstein, r.e. (187) Wilson, q.b. (185) McLaughry, q.b. (197) Cohen, f.b. (185) Hall, f.b. (190) Harding, l.h.b. (165) Atwell, l.h.b. (179) Macdonald, r.h.b. (175) O'Leary, r.h.b...
...Cliff Wilson also was among the "As" almost constantly. You can count on the fingers of one hand the games in which Wilson has missed the gong, and this one does not give evidence of being one count. Chief Boston, however, will see plenty of action before the day is done, as will other "B" backs like wingback Bob Burnett and bucking back Ben Smith...