Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widener is the collection of the work of Bruce Rogers, the leading American designer of books and type faces, which is placed in the Second Floor hall. Rogers was formerly connected with the University as printing adviser to the Press and once held the same position at Cambridge, England...
...noon to 1:30 o'clock. They are getting sick of being pestered with queries as to whether the class consists of a bowl of chop suey eaten chop-chop (quickly) with chop sticks or whether they don't eat at all. It is just another example of New England's smugness that they don't realize that at that time here it is 1:00 to 2:30 o'clock in the morning in China, and that they are asleep at that time...
Mauretania, So well ahead were the plans of Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipbuilders last week that rivets were going into plates on the top decks of Great Britain's new 33,000-ton Cunarder, largest liner ever built in England,* and costing an estimated $10,000,000. Launching is scheduled for July. Nearly 3,000 tons bigger than her famed predecessor of the same name-scrapped two years ago-the new ten-deck Mauretania is 750 ft. long and, with a speed of 22 knots from her steam turbines, will cross the Atlantic in six days. Carrying...
True to his name, the late banker Percy Avery Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr., believed in taking every precaution. Although the last disastrous earthquake in New England was in 1755, in 1908 he built the walls of his Greenwich, Conn, home of reinforced concrete three feet thick, carried $1,000,000 earthquake insurance. Last week wreckers who had contracted to raze the house decided to use dynamite...
Died. Hugh Lloyd Thomas, 49, British Minister to Paris, amateur jockey; of a broken neck, when his horse, Periwinkle II, fell after taking the last fence in a three-mile steeplechase; in Derby, England...