Word: bertrand
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...Mathematics for 26 years at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, the college from which he graduated. In 1921 he served as dean of the faculty of science. Today he is a fellow of the Royal Society of England and also belongs to the School of English Realists of which Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore are two of the most prominent members. In 1922 he was the first recipient of the James Scott prize offered by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Among his publications are the "Principia Mathematica" in three volumes, "Principles of Relativity", and "The Principles of Natural Knowledge...
...North Whitehead, for twenty-six years lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge is one of the lucky few whose coming will attract more than the usual amount of undergraduate attention. Besides being one of the foremost adherents of the school of English Realists, which numbers among its leaders Bertrand Russell, Professor Whitehead is a follow of the Royal Society of England, and was awarded the James Scott prize in 1922 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
...Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel. Chemists had found one milligram of arsenic in the woman's body. M. Dan-val was sentenced to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. Then in 1902 Gabriel Bertrand, French chemist, announced that arsenic is habitually found in the human body. Danval appealed, was released. He appealed also for rehabilitation but the French courts refused to grant this in 1906. By 1921 new evidence was available and he again appealed. The French courts appointed a committee of experts to report. They announced that...
...INVERTED PYRAMID?Bertrand W. Sinclair?Little Brown ($2.00). Roderick Noaquay and Mary Thorne start the book off at a tender age by shooting the rapids together off Little Dent, Vancouver Island. The rest of 'the book takes Roderick and Mary through innumerable misfortunes, chiefly financial. Most of them are due to his elder brother's business acumen unfortunately not equalled by his judgment. The name of Norquay is, in danger throughout the book, but Roderick, last of the line, manages to save it after a hard fight. But he has to sell the old Norquay homestead to do it, which...
...third conference will probably be held in New York City on January 19th, immediately following the Bertrand Russell Dinner given...