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...Nanking Government. Few days later Sir Frederick departed, with Cincinnati newsreaders none the wiser save for the fact that he had delivered a lecture entitled "The Future of England"; that he and Lady Whyte had been put up at the Walnut Hills home of Professor & Mrs. George Barbour; that Lady Whyte, at dinner, had worn a red evening dress. Sir Frederick's ideas on England's future or on any other world problem remained sacred to 160 members of the local English-Speaking Union, whose guest he was. Thence arose a teapot-tempest between the Cincinnati Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cincinnati Crust | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...they are intended to be temporary, probably for a six months period. By special arrangement with the Cambridge city authorities, teachers in the Cambridge Public Schools, as well as neighboring colleges, who usually bring classes to the Museum, may have access to the exhibition collections by notifying Dr. Thomas Barbour, Director, three days in advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM HOURS | 9/27/1932 | See Source »

...they are intended to be temporary, probably for a six months period. By special arrangement with the Cambridge city authorities, teachers in the Cambridge Public Schools, as well as neighboring colleges, who usually bring classes to the Museum, may have access to the exhibition collections by notifying Dr. Thomas Barbour, Director, three days in advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUM HOURS | 9/23/1932 | See Source »

...Received from New Jersey's Barbour a bill to provide a $1,500,000.000 program of "self-liquidating public works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 6, 1932 | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

These accounts of Mr. Wees's tribulations exasperated Professor Thomas Barbour, director of the Harvard Museum for which Mr. Wees ostensibly traveled. Professor Barbour had made zoological explorations in the East and West Indies, in Burma, China and Japan, in Central and South America. As a professional explorer he had no sympathy for the whimperings reported from Paraguay. On the other hand, as museum director he was mightily concerned with the public's reaction to a Harvard traveler's troubles. The sensationalized murder of Columbia University's Henrietta Schmerler when she bungled among the Apaches (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whimpering Flayed | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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