Word: braggs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there that the best shape for the Queen Mary's hull was worked out. On the lower floor of the palace, technicians are busy in their workrooms. In 30 rooms on the upper two floors, recently refurbished, lives one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg, an authority on electricity and crystallography who became director of the National Physical Laboratories last year. On their grass tennis court he and his handsome, winsome wife play tennis (Professor Bragg usually but not always wins), and on their smooth green lawn the Braggs and their four children have picnic...
Last week there was an unwonted scurry and bustle on the top floors of King William's palace. The reason was not the war panic swirling over Europe, but the fact that William Lawrence Bragg, having hardly settled down at Teddington, had been appointed to a newer and loftier post: Cavendish Professor at Cambridge University. "Cavendish Professor" means director of the Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics. This post, which Bragg takes over this week, is regarded- in England at least-as the world's top scientific...
...been announced that the following have won scholarships: John B. Addington, East Aurora, Ill.; John F. Ambrose, Ozone Park, N. Y.; Nathan Belfer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harry E. von Bergen, Roslindale, Mass.; Milliam A. Betz, Columbia, Mo.; Robert M. Boyd, New York, N. Y.; John K. Bragg, Charleston, S. C.; John C. Brechin, Bristol, R. I.; Loring T. Briggs, Taunton, Mass.; Ferdinand F. Bruck, Bonn Rhein, Germany; John P. R. Budlong, East Greenwich, R. I.; Myron I. Burnes, Brookline, Mass...
...Fort Bragg. Calif., nobody believed that forehanded Abe Triplett was going to kill himself when he picked a spot under a big tree, permitted himself to be photographed digging his grave (see cut ). Nobody believed it when he went home, built himself a coffin. Two days later Fort Bragg found it was wrong...
Unreconstructed Southerners regard the Civil War as a series of tragic blunders, can still wonder what the outcome might have been if Bragg had not been so dilatory after Chickamauga, if Longstreet had not been so slow at Gettysburg, if Lee's genius had not been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union...