Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only British M. P. to be knighted was sturdy Ben Turner, staunch Labor henchman of the Prime Minister, onetime weaver, now textile union head. In general the Honors List reflected Scot MacDonald's disapproval of the peerage-no new peer was created...
...Arnold Zweig of Berlin, author of The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Well and comfortably educated, he wandered the world, might have continued indefinitely had it not been for the War, which turned him to writing and made him a European bestseller. Manhattan theatre-goers know his adaptation of Ben Jonson's Volpone. Other U. S.-translated books: Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouche...
...American people are the descendants of the barbarians of Northern and Western Europe. Year by year the story of their long but steady prehistoric progress toward the period of written history is becoming clearer. They owe much to the peoples of Central Europe, who had, in turn, ben awakened by the challenge of Near Eastern civilization, How these Eastern stimuli reached Central Europe and just what effect they had there is still not clearly understood, but the Harvard-Pennsylvania expedition will, if it continues its labors, be able to enrich the museums of the two universities with collections which will...
...meet lasted through two hot, dusty afternoons at Franklin Field. The first day, when a light breeze scarcely spun the wind indicator, Southern California was the favorite until Coach Robert Lyman ("Dink") Templeton surprised everyone by entering his star quarter-miler, Ben Eastman, in the half-mile heats. Eastman, said to have the most saving style of any middle-distance runner in history, won so easily that critics began to see how Stanford, with 16 men qualified for the finals to Southern California's 13, might pile up enough points to win the next afternoon...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...