Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lois Henderson, age 22, was graduated from Wilson College in 1947 with an English major, Classical Languages minor . . . [She] obtained her first job in Pittsburgh selling notions in a department store, take-home pay $22.50 a week...
...apparatus is needed to observe them. Some scientists work with stacks of Geiger tubes, which register each particle that passes through them. Others use special photographic plates, where certain particles leave microscopic tracks of silver in the sensitive emulsion. The best instrument, and the hardest to use, is the Wilson cloud chamber, where the particles make visible tracks of white condensed moisture...
When the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, former dean of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Detroit, married Isabelle Wilson Morrill, a divorcee, last year, many an Episcopal churchman was shocked into protest (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week Mrs. O'Ferrall went to Reno. "He criticized my hats and the way I dressed in public," she explained. "I've brought all my hats with me to Reno." The Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall said nothing...
Actress Elsie Janis, 59, "Sweetheart of the A.E.F." in World War I, and Actor-Husband Gilbert Wilson, 42, decided to call it quits after 16 years...
...Named after the late Dr. George Ellery Hale, founder of Mt. Wilson Observatory, who started the 200-inch telescope project. He died...