Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back as the 12th Century, England imported the best leather from Cordova, Spain, and by the time Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales it was natural for an English shoemaker of standing who used the best Cordovan leather to be called a "cordewaner." Later the word became "cordwainer...
Inferentially, U. S. Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Alexander Kirk, with whom Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh stayed in Moscow and who handled the arrangements, was suspected. Pravda charged that on the Lindberghs' return to England the Colonel told "guests of Lady Astor" that "Germany possesses such a strong air force it is capable of defeating the combined air fleets of England, France, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia...
...44th season of the Promenade Concerts closed, musical Britain turned out in a body to do Sir Henry honor. The occasion: a Jubilee Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, celebrating Sir Henry's 50th anniversary as a conductor. Special trains ran from all parts of England. From Cardiff, Wales, in the midst of England's "distressed areas," came 500 Promgoers. The musicians who played in the concert all gave their services free. They were: London's four leading symphonic orchestras (BBC's, the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Queen's Hall), London...
...travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable ... of the cucumber family") from Jamaica, chaulmoogra (a leprosy remedy) from Burma. In 1906-07, Fairchild and his staff...
...collected most of the evidence for expansion (high-velocity retreat of the distant nebulae), now believes that after traveling long distances something in the nature of light may cause merely an appearance of expansion, that the universe may well be actually static. Others- notably Harvard's Shapley and England's Eddington-disagree with...