Word: cuthbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cook to his Somerset parish: "In St. Cuthbert's, at least, there will be no war talks from the pulpit...
Amusements. Thirteen Tory M.P.s hold directorships in companies operating cinemas, theatres, race tracks. Typical is Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 55-year-old aviation enthusiast, a director of Greyhound Racing Association Trust Ltd., which owns tracks in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, paid 40% dividends last year...
Born a slave, liberated in 1865 when his master, a Confederate captain, returned from the war, Richard Wright had his resolute, ambitious mother to thank for his education. She and her free brood tramped 150 miles from Cuthbert to Atlanta, Ga. There he worked his way through Atlanta University (1876) and became first president of Georgia State Industrial College. He spent many a vacation taking short courses at Harvard, University of Chicago. Oxford, topped them off with a night banking course in the University of Pennsylvania-and so, after 30 years of academic work, became a banker...
That young men turn both idle and fanciful in spring, and that young men are not the only ones, was a truism examined last week at a Manhattan medical celebration. At the opening of Mount Sinai Hospital's enlarged department of physical therapy, Professor Henry Cuthbert Bazett of the University of Pennsylvania gave an explanation for this seasonal phenomenon. In spring, said Professor Bazett, a human being's blood volume increases by a fifth to a third. He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter. Outside it was sleety...
Lieutenant Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon is a distinguished British authority on aeronautics, ''First Englishman to Fly in England," past president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In his Who's Who entry, Colonel Moore-Brabazon lists his recreations as "golf, tobogganing, yachting." Last week he was engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor...