Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of Sir William Lawrence Bragg, fifth Cavendish Professor. Like his predecessor, Lord Rutherford, Professor Bragg, 48, was born in the Dominions. His father is Sir William Henry Bragg, who has a scientific reputation no less lustrous than his son's. In 1885 the elder Bragg sailed from England to assume a professorship of mathematics and physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Primarily a mathematician, he bought a batch of textbooks, boned up on physics during the voyage...
...watched his father and maternal grandfather send Australia's first wireless signals. With equal vividness he recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright spots when X-rays...
Science for the Citizen was published four months ago in England where it was a non-fiction bestseller. No doubt sales in the U. S. will be equally large. The book is a remarkably learned compendium of scientific information, and when Professor Hogben wanders into little essays on the historical and present interrelations of science and society he does so with lucidity. But it is unlikely that everyone who buys Science for the Citizen will read it through. For Professor Hogben has obviously overestimated the stamina of the lay reader, even of intelligent, fairly well educated...
...flown from Manhattan to Boston alone and perhaps half that number carried from Boston to Manhattan by a combined service of four lines. By this week approximately 60,000 Ibs. of express -serum, clothing, telephone repair apparatus, newspapers-and 57,000 Ibs. of mail had been flown into New England...
...held in Washington's capacious Chamber of Commerce building, drew a full complement of U. S. tycoons. But what they had to say along the standard themes of U. S. management problems lost the spotlight to the embarrassed remarks of the European representatives. Sample: Lord Leverhulme (soap) of England, retiring president: "The more freedom and smoothness there is in the give & take of goods and services between the countries of the world, the more encouragement there will be to the growth of that right temper between nations which alone can diminish the recurring threats...