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...Craftsmanship Bragg, director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory at the University of London. His greatest contribution to science is his use of x-rays to describe and measure the atoms and molecules of crystals. As is expected of new B. A. A. S. presidents, Sir William stated his scientific credo: "There are some who think that science is inhuman. They speak as though students of modern science would destroy reverence and faith. I do not know how that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...that credo was almost an aside in President Bragg's address. He dwelt much more on craftsmanship and science. British scientists are less aware of industry's needs than are their U. S. colleagues. The academic and the workaday are more separate there than here. Hence Sir William was obliged to exhort: "The plain truth is that modern craftsmanship, with all its noise and ugliness, is giving food, clothing, warmth and interest to millions who otherwise must die. In all honesty let us recognize that we live on craftsmanship in its modern form." The motor, aviation; chemical, electrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

President Bragg's scientific audience (3,000 people) thus stirred to think of science's relation to industry, spent the week-end of their convention inspecting shipyards and factories around Glasgow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Died. Braxton Bragg Comer, 78, onetime (1907-11) Governor of Alabama, onetime (1920) U. S. Senator from Alabama; in Birmingham, after a long illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...publisher of all the newspapers in Mobile, Ala., last week bought an Evening Times, and thereby became publisher of all the evening newspapers in his state's capital, Montgomery. He merged the Evening Times with his Montgomery Evening Journal. Publisher Thompson's onetime partners in Birmingham, onetime Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and son Donald Comer, were not associated with him in the new purchase, their interest in newspapers having been purely industria-political. Save for one newspaper, the Montgomery morning Advertiser (owned by Publisher Victor H. Hanson of the Birmingham News), all the newspapers in Alabama's second and third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabalmy | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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