Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that the portraits on the new Edward VIII stamps of which TIME [Sept. 14] says "the new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like him" have actually been reproduced from a recent photograph of the Sovereign by Hugh Cecil Portraits, Ltd. of London, England...
...scholarships, according to the will of Cecil John Rhodes, are awarded annually on the basis of scholastic and literary abilities; moral qualities; under which are considered manhood, truth, courage, and fellowship; force of character and leadership; physical vigor, as demonstrated by interest in outdoor sports. As the committee is on the watch for men who will excel in a particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than the quality of physical vigor...
...realm of ancient cultures, the Harvard staff will be assisted by one of England's most brilliant Greek scholars. Dr. Cecil M. Bowra, Senior Tutor since 1933 of Wadham College, Oxford, will give courses in Homer's "Odyssey" and in "Greek Lyric Poetry of the Fifth Century." At the age of 19, Dr. Bowra fought in France with the Royal Field Artillery. Upon graduating from New College, Oxford, in 1920, he specialized in the study of Classical Greek Poetry, and has published several works, including "Tradition and Design in the Iliad," 1930; "Ancient Greek Poetry," 1933; "Greek Lyric Poetry...
...Harper Sibley, wife of the president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Francis Bowes Sayre. Assistant Secretary of State, and Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Dr. T. Z. Koo. a leader of Christian youth activities in China. The eleven Bishops of the Team included Episcopal Archbishop Cecil C. Quainton of Victoria, B. C., Methodist Bishop Ralph Spalding Cushman of the Denver area. Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. A Team member who was to preach in Pittsburgh last week was Manhattan's Presbyterian Dr. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee. Minister of famed Labor Temple and editor...
...deserved a similar honor in the past. He was a star end on the California football team of 1917. Then 27, he left college to join the Army. After the War, he became a Hollywood cinemactor, had a bit part as recently as 1934 as head jailer in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra. Since 1932 Chief Loane West has built up a profitable sideline of giving lectures at $25 apiece on "Indian health methods," consisting of simple living, daily exercises, rough foods. He recommends one cigar in three months, Mojave tea with red honey, raw eggs in grape juice...