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Word: edwardes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unescorted by the high command and the press, but only by an aide and a batman, another member of Britain's ruling family last week toured the British front: H. R. H. Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Major General (formerly Field Marshal) the Duke of Windsor, 45. He traveled (and slept) in a caravan consisting of a trailer towed by a small coupe. Unlike his brother and successor on the throne, who was kept well back and whose trail he did not cross, he visited the foremost zones. His mission: to inquire into and report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...only five years after Mendel's heredity laws were rediscovered, Dr. Shull (who was then at the Carnegie Institution's station on Long Island) and the late Dr. Edward Murray East (at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) started their experiments with corn hybridization. The Department of Agriculture, foreseeing laborious years of further experiment ahead, was slow to follow their lead. Thoroughgoing research programs at corn-belt stations did not get under way until 1920, and until 1933 practically no hybrid corn was grown commercially. Not until last year were seed supplies plentiful enough for growers to take their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...some test publishers had broken off diplomatic relations with Professor Buros. Nevertheless, the professor was almost ready to publish a second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale's Edward S. Noyes, Iowa's Carl Seashore, Harvard's Charles Swain Thomas, University of Chicago's Ralph W. Tyler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...however, the deal was a shock. He is short, bald, capable Colonel Charles Edward Speaks, 52, Fisk President, who has increased his firm's business about 65% since he took over in 1936. Almost solely responsible for Fisk's good showing, he wanted to keep his plant going independently and profitably. Says he: "Of course, I'm an operating man, and I don't see any reason why the directors should want to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Fisk to U. S. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

After two plenary sessions in the Winthrop Senior Common Room Friday morning and afternoon, three study groups, conducted by Edward Bernays. I. L. Child, and Rupert Emerson, associate professor of Government; discussed propaganda and education, propaganda and the individual, and propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD CONFERENCE ENDS AFTER PROBE INTO PROPAGANDA | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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