Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...award was created in 1902 to commemorate Lord Kelvin's researches, and is presented every three years by the Institute of Civil Engineers of Great Britain for research work in ocean telegraphy and electrical measuring devices...
Flappers & Socialists. The newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, and other organs of the Rothermere Press flatly predicted, last week, that Britain's newly enfranchised ''flappers" (women from 21 to 30) will prevent the return of the Conservatives with their present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...
Rugby. International Rugby Championship (Great Britain-Ireland-France)? Won by Scotland in final match with Eng-land, at Edinburgh...
...most timorous mergophobe need not fear that the deal will create a world communications monopoly. Still the active, eager competitor of I.T.&T.'s wire systems is the mighty Western Union. Looming is a battle with Britain's merged cable-wireless companies. And for good measure, last week, Sweden's Kreuger & Toll (holding and financing company for the Swedish match trust) threatened to invade the foreign telephone field, in direct competition with...
...Britain's leading theatrical weekly, The Stage, flayed B.B.C., last week, for a new and super-autocratic ruling, that the names of actors and actresses in plays put on the air will no longer be announced. Amazing B.B.C. explanation: Hundreds of listeners have complained that when they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor...