Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Founder of the American Meteor Society, Dr. Charles Pollard Olivier of the Flower Observatory, University of Pennsylvania, has encouraged laymen for the past few years to help astronomers observe meteor phenomena. Last week he asked them to time the flight of each shooting light, watch carefully to see where the meteors originated. Since some of Dr. Olivier's amateur helpers have reported a shower this year, astronomers know that the meteorites have not been pulled out of their usual path by another planet as they were in 1899. In this case, the next two years should have brilliant display...
Died. Dr. Ebenezer Johnson Foster, 83, adopted at the age of 41 by Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science founder; in Waterbury, Center, Vt, where he was the last surviving Civil War veteran. Although an able physician he never practiced after taking up Christian Science...
Thirty-three years ago the directors of Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich, held their first meeting. Last week the directorate held another epochal meeting. Their purpose: to elect a new president to succeed the late Dr. Herbert Henry Dow, founder of the company. Presiding over the meeting was Albert E. Convers, chairman, who has been with the company since its inception. Also at the meeting were Directors G. E. Collings and James T. Pardee, both of whom had been at the first meeting. Unanimously they voted that the presidency should be filled by Willard Henry...
...glassware, which led to his development of that heavy iridescent substance known as Tiffany Favrile Glass. His first U. S. exhibit, "A Dock Scene, Yonkers," was in the National Academy of 1869. He became (and remains) Vice President and Art Director of Tiffany & Co., jewelers. He is president and founder of Tiffany Furnaces and Tiffany Studios, which have filled many a church, mausoleum, library, with windows artfully simulating oil paintings. He is one of the most revered patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose President Robert Weeks De Forest is his great & good friend...
...inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists who go to Laurelton Hall for the summer are personally invited by Director Lothrop. Nearly all of them paint in the modern manner. There is only one restriction. At Laurelton Hall they must paint outdoors, from Nature. Every Saturday Founder Tiffany, dignified in his long grey beard and with an orchid in his buttonhole, inspects their work, politely puzzled...