Word: buchananism
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...ashes contain large amounts of sodium, iron, silicon, sulphur, chlorine. Whence these elements? Chlorine, sodium, sulphur may be carried high in the air by ocean spray, and come down in rain. The presence of the iron and silicon is a puzzle.-Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, Dr. Ruth Buchanan, U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...Last month, James Buchanan Duke, North Carolina tobacco man, established a 40-million-dollar trust fund (TIME, Dec. 15). He told Trinity College (Durham, N. C.) that if it would become Duke University, it might have the money. Otherwise, there would be a new university in the land...
...training naval officers. So he went to the War Department and got it to sign over to the Navy the land on which had stood Fort Severn, at Annapolis, Md., and there on Oct. 10 of that year the U. S. Naval School was opened with Commander Franklin Buchanan as Superintendent. Five years later the school was reorganized and rechristened "The U. S. Naval Academy." There, where it first took root, the Academy has flour- ished ever since, save during the Civil War when it was temporarily transplanted to Newport...
Died. Sir George William Buchanan, 70, onetime British Ambassador to Petrograd (1910-18) and Rome (1919-21); in London. Holder of many diplomatic posts, recipient of many orders, Sir George was the author of a translation of Goethe's Faust and, last year, of a book of memoirs...
Engaged. Miss Harriet Winthrop McKim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop McKim of Tuxedo Park, to Augustus B. Field Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Field, of Manhattan. Both are direct descendants of Thomas Buchanan, 18th Century merchant, whose great landholdings in New York founded many a proud fortune...