Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, England, last week, where the British Association for the Advancement of Science was assembled for its summer meeting, two distinguished scientists were much in evidence. One was Robert John Strutt, Baron Rayleigh (pronounced "ray-lee"), an authority on radioactivity, son of the late' great Rayleigh who was best known for his discovery of the "noble" gases (helium, argon, etc.). This year, Lord Rayleigh, 63, is the B. A. A. S. president, and therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge...
...tournament in his first appearance in singles competition on U. S. courts this summer, the Australian Davis Cuppers (Quist & Bromwich) were at Longwood-proving their proficiency by taking all five matches from the German team of Henner Henkel & Georg von Metaxa (an Austrian acquired by anschluss to replace imprisoned Baron Gottfried von Cramm). After losing their third straight match, the German team received a cable from the German Tennis Federation "requesting" them to discontinue further competition in the U. S., return home ''to be saved from too much tennis" (meaning, presumably: Aryan humiliation...
Like Tennis Player Baron Gottfried von Cramm who talked too much about his political opinions while touring the world, General von Fritsch, who opposed sending German aid to Rightist Spain and more than once told Hitler that Germany is not yet sufficiently prepared to fight a war, was smeared by accusations of homosexuality. Whereas Cramm was sent to jail, Fritsch, of a size too big to jail, merely had to resign as head of the army (TIME...
...many Britons hoped was a slap at Adolf Hitler their rulers performed two exceptional acts last week in quick succession: 1) Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped to the stand to support him. Said Lord Horder: "As far as I can judge, the facts would have led me to the same conclusion as Dr. Bourne...