Word: burdons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Biologist John Scott Haldane, 69,* brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), was born in Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham. Outside the academic world, he has studied mining, scientific diving and the fetid depths of factories, has written on respiration, air analysis, ventilation...
...confused with his son John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, famed biochemist of Cambridge University, twice-wounded onetime member of the Black Watch, who, like his father, observes the subtle linkage between science, philosophy, ethics, religion...
...almost to the field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
...maiden's heart blood will restore a corpse to life, thinks Dr. Haddo, sinister magician-hypnotist. Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is elected as the source of supply for the experiment. While breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, under the hypnotic direction of the doctor, she meets sympathetic Dr. Burdon who understands how hard it is for a girl to do as she wishes under these conditions. Somerset Maugham conceived the tale. Rex Ingram directed the film, tried hard to make the gruesome fantasy appear real, succeeded partiallv...
...plan to raise the 25th anniversary gift of the Class of 1924 by means of endowment insurance appears to be an exceedingly good one, from every point of view. Among its other advantages, it has the merit of distributing the burdon--of allowing every member of the class to assist in raising the fund to assist very materially, yet without great financial strain at any time. A class fund composed of large contributions from a few wealthy men may be just as useful as a fund which represents substantial gifts from every member, but it is certainly not as democratic...