Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those Flemish politicians who played ball with the German invaders in the hope that Germany would sever Flanders from the rest of Belgium and set it up as an autonomous state. Many pro-German Flemings were arrested for treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before another war, succeeded in having Paul van Zeeland, then Premier, push through Parliament a general amnesty granting full pardon to the post...
...bachelor, Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...
...adaptation. Occasionally, in each field, progress in interpretation is marked by a commentary so learned as to become a classic. Published last week was a serious book which may well become a sort of Blackstone on Coke to future art students. The subject: The Art of Cezanne* The commentators: Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Dr. Albert Coombs (''Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa. got his nickname, his millions, and his great collection of French paintings from the product* he trademarked in 1902 and manufactured until 1930. He got his artistic taste from the sound advice...
...Walter Albert Jessup, 61-year-old president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,* believes that U. S. .colleges are too big and too bad. Each year, in his report for the Foundation, he offers fresh facts to prove his point. Last year he took colleges to task for buying tuba players with scholarships (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938). Last week Dr. Jessup led off the Foundation's 33rd annual report by giving the rough side of his tongue to another growing evil: tramp scholars...
Coach Rene Peroy's Fencing team will have its first real test of the year today when it meets the Hartford Fencing Club. The team will be: Foil--Cranston E. Jones '40, Ben B. Johnson '41, and Albert H. Labastie '40: Epee--Lyn A. Brun '41, J. William Croach '40, Amos B. Murphy '41, and Halford W. Park '40: Sabre--Captain N. Horton Batchelder '39, Robert R. Batt '41, Joseph T. Doyle '39 and Thomas W. Wright...