Word: british
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SMILER WITH THE KNIFE-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). Perilous adventures befall the wife of a private investigator when she agrees to help the British secret service smash a Fascist conspiracy. To an exciting story pseudonymous Author Blake (English Poet Cecil Day-Lewis) adds the fillip of exceptionally good writing...
...University lecturer who "may deliver occasional lectures" is a rather extraordinary individual. When that lecturer is a director of the British Broadcasting Corporation--an integral part of the wartime "Office of Information"--and has been given a Harvard title "under a special grant", there are grounds for healthy scepticism...
America may well benefit from Mr. Siepmann's visit. In the opinion of many scholars, including Harvard's Professor Herring, the United States are far behind Britain in radio adult education. Commercialism, of course, is the fundamental evil as far as this is concerned. Pioneers are the British Broadcasting Corporation and its distinguished director of program planning...
Charles Siepmann, long a director of radio programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation, has been appointed University Lecturer at Harvard for three years from December 1, 1939, under a special grant, the University announced yesterday...
Several authorities from the political and academic worlds have been invited. Among them are: Leonard Doob. professor of Psychology at Yale; Stuart Chase; I. A. Richards, head of Magdalen College at Oxford; Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lynd, authors of "Middletown in Transition"; Alan Dudley, representative of the British Broadcasting System in New York; Professor Hans Kohn from Smith and Frederick L. Schuman from Williams...