Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offerings, some of which are obviously hobbies, TIME'S editorial and business staffs revealed a good deal about themselves. One, an amateur cook, turned out to be the owner of a collection of some 5,000 cook books (in all languages), which he has been assembling since his 18th year. He carries on considerable correspondence with dealers around the world, and has turned a nice profit on some of his choicer finds. His favorite dish: beef a la Stroganoff ("a very fast dish once you have everything...
...Andover and Exeter were both founded by the 18th Century Phillips family. * One-fifth of Andover's students get scholarships...
Amply illustrated, "On Understanding Science" is divided into four chapters: "The Scientific Education of the Lay- man;" "Illustrations from the 17th Century 'Touching the Spring of the Air;'" "Illustrations from the 18th Century concerning Electricity and Combustion;" and "Certain Principles of the Tactics and Strategy of Science...
Logan was an 18th Century gentleman farmer, an author of pamphlets on crops and soil, and a Quaker pacifist. He lived on a 500-acre estate near Germantown, Pa., dabbled in medicine, and habitually wore homespun clothes to encourage domestic manufacture. In 1798, Logan saw the U.S., attacked and insulted, preparing for war. French warships had seized U.S. vessels. The French foreign minister, Talleyrand, had cynically tried to exact what amounted to a tribute from the infant country. Nevertheless, Quaker Logan viewed U.S. intentions with consternation, and as a self-appointed peacemaker sailed for France...
Died. Sir Norman Mcleod Buchan, 84, 18th Earl of Caithness, head of the ancient Highland family that once controlled northern Scotland† and the Orkney Isles; in Castle Auchmacoy, Scotland...