Word: englis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report that school authorities in smoke-hung Birmingham, Eng., had investigated the hygienic qualities of window glass constructed to permit the passage of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight and found this glass so far superior to common panes that they had ordered it installed in all Birmingham schools (TIME, Oct. 18), had prime interest for U. S.* glass manufacturers. The Corning Glass Works (Corning, N. Y.), family company of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Alanson B. Houghton, swiftly called attention (see LETTERS) to its recent perfection of a glass, soon to be produced commercially, which transmits 86% of sunlight...
...glass used in Birmingham was "Vitaglass," a true glass of high quartz content invented by one F. E. Lamplough, M. A., Cambridge University, made in a factory in Birmingham, Eng...
Josef Hofmann, pianist: "There are many trials in my profession, involving as it does rapid and constant traveling. No sooner was I entrained from London for Folkestone, Eng., than my train was derailed, just outside Charing Cross Station. I was the first to leave the train; I walked the track swiftly back to the station, keeping a wary eye on the electric rail; I motored 70 miles to Folkestone, arriving in time for my concert...
Persons without children in school wondered what were the sentiments of people with children in school, who saw a despatch last week from Southshields, Eng., reporting that no girl or boy would be permitted to wear a finger ring in a Southshields classroom. Cause: a girl wore a ring to class, gazed at it, neglected her studies; other girls copied her; boys grimaced, whispered, copied...
...Waterbury, but was represented by Samuel Shoemaker, zealous disciple. Mr. Buchman is smooth, with a long intelligent nose, a hungry eye. He is to be seen from time to time traveling first class on the principal transatlantic liners. When at New Haven, or Princeton, or Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, Eng., he is persona grata among a group of serious-minded young men distinguished by their piety and their wealth. Like young Buchmanites, Mr. Buchman is a bachelor, though past 40. In what does his influence over them reside...