Word: bart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astronomer Bart Bok of Harvard and Bacteriologist Stuart Mudd of Penn wanted to urge Russian scientists to urge their Government (thus far, outside and not even looking in) to join UNESCO. Orchid-draped Mrs. William Dick Sporborg, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, sprang what she herself called "a surprise"-that the National Commission shelve everything else and concentrate on reducing tensions between Russia and the U.S. Assistant Secretary Benton thought that wouldn't get far "without the cooperation of Russia...
...BART NELSON...
Mystical Hard Heads. Sir George F. MacLeod, Bart, was a Winchester-and Oxford-educated captain in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of World War I, holder of the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He knew that he wanted to be a minister. After graduate study at Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums...
Child of Liberty. Sir Timothy Shelley, Bart., had hoped that his son would get comfortably to Parliament and stand for Reform. Instead, Percy took direct action against what he conceived as oppression, social and personal, by marrying a pretty schoolgirl who didn't want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth...
...galaxy is full of such "globules" or unborn stars, which look like black patches against the starry background. Professor Bart J. Bok of Harvard found 23 of them silhouetted against a single glowing nebula. They probably weigh much less than the sun, but are several thousand billion miles in diameter...