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Kaspar has none of the bashfulness of a Milquetoast. When he is complimented on speaking English well, he explains: "I picked it up on my travels." His English had its stiffest test when, on his way back from an Australian tour, he was asked to explain skating to a Ceylon reporter who had never seen ice except in highballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast Figures | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Included in the foreign representation are: Japan, Philippines, India, Turkey, Mexico, Bahama Islands, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Channel Islands, Ceylon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, Venezuela and Wales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 Foreign Nations Represented Here; Canadian, Chinese Contingents Largest | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

President Eliot out of danger--After operation for appendicitis in Kandy, Ceylon, on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn Back The Clock | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Tuesday. Since it crossed the Equator twice and also the 180th meridian, it entered four hemispheres. Most curious of all, although until this week there had been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only one piddling 65-sec. affair for the rest of the century. Year: 1963. Witness: New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tragic Eclipse | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...fields. In Tarsus, Cilicia, a second season of excavation was conducted jointly with Bryn Mawr College and the Archeological Institute of America. It was under the direction of Dr. Hetty Goldman, the Museum's Excavator in Greek Lands. Another expedition is now in the field in India, Ceylon, and Afghanistan, under Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. His purpose is to photograph in color and to publish the outstanding wall paintings in the cave chapels, an original undertaking whose results will be eagerly awaited by all Orientalists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

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