Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Bernard Shaw, asked by Hearstpapers what he would have the U. S. do about Publisher Hearst's recent expulsion from France (TIME, Sept. 15), replied for publication in Hearstpapers: ". . . make him President. The United States can do no less, unless it is prepared to take the outrage lying down. . . . America is more afraid of Hearst than France is, or Britain; that is why I take him very seriously...
...opinion, some intellectual arrogance, and some close-mindedness, but these would appear as they are, merely as blemishes upon the portrait. Each college generation has it within its power to refine or to smudge this portrait." Horrid Picture. More doleful was the outlook of eloquent, beetle-browed little Warden Bernard Iddings Bell of St. Stephens College (New York), whose views appear in the current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school and college . . . are, to be sure, sources of joy; but still the horrid...
...April, as part of the present $4,000,- ooo investment to develop Saratoga as a State-owned park and health centre, the New York Legislature voted an additional million for a huge central drinking hall, pump room and bath house. The scheme was wangled by two fervent Saratogoers, Bernard Mannes Baruch and George Foster Peabody. Joseph Henry Freedlander was appointed architect...
Elderly Bacteria, perhaps 100 million years old, were found trapped in pieces of anthracite coal from Pennsylvania and Wales, reported Dr. Charles Bernard Lipman, professor of plant physiology and dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California. Some bacteria were egg-shaped, others elongated and brilliantly colored. To see if they were still alive, Dr. Lipman put them in a proper breeding medium, found that in a few hours they had reproduced by the million. If additional research proves that the organisms were present when the coal was formed in a prehistoric swamp, they will be direct, minute...
...discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched a cricket ball at him, convinced...