Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold mine in Nova Scotia, abandoned 25 years ago and reopened last winter, collapsed on its owners last week, thus entombing one of Canada's most distinguished surgeons and a rising young Toronto lawyer. Trapped with them was one of their employes. Modest, moon-faced Dr. David Edwin Robertson, 52, surgeon-in-chief of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and his lawyer friend, gangling, bespectacled Herman Russell Magill, 30, last February took a flyer by leasing the Moose River Gold Mine. Last week Dr. Robertson & partner were ready to take the mine's first gold brick...
...Paris last week the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs named as recipient of the Harmon Trophy that super-careful, monosyllabic antithesis of a grandstand flyer. Captain Edwin C. Musick, 42, No. 1 pilot of Pan American Airways. The award includes the title of ''World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents...
Molecule Magnets. It has been known for years that nerve impulses are electric in nature. But the mode of transmission remained obscure. It was wrong to picture a current passing along a nerve fibre as if through a metallic conductor. Since 1926 Dr. Edwin Joseph Colin and his associates at Harvard have been looking for a better picture. Last week he announced important progress...
...days before, James Roosevelt had gone ashore by plane from the cutter with the news that his father was playing politics with his naval aide, Captain Wilson Brown, his military aide, Colonel Edwin M. Watson. The Press now wanted to know who had won. Franklin Roosevelt looked blank until someone explained they meant the dice-and-pin game called "Politics" (TIME...
Last night Robert M. Bunker, chairman, released the names of the successful candidates for the Editorial Board. They are: James English and Calvin W. Stillman, sub-chairmen; E. Dixwall Chase, Edwin Clarke. Charles D. Dyer, William C. Flinn, David D. Furman, Chester Handleman, Martin Lichterman, Robert F. Loomis, William N. Parker, Welch Peel, Richard H. Sullivan, and Walter W. Webster...