Word: englis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt I would have to break out of the cabin. I suppose doctors would call it aquaphobia. I'm a bundle of nerves. I guess I'm getting too old for these stunts." [He is 36.] Ill when he took off from Lympne, Eng land, Sir Charles suffered from lack of sleep. Typical excerpts from his log : 'Feel pretty sick. Had worst scare when forced to descend to 200 feet be cause I thought I was fainting. . . . Pos-sibly [tailwinds] are blowing higher up but am afraid to go up lest, feeling suddenly faint, I might...
Many, in and outside the field of English, meet up with Professor Matthiessen in that favorite course. Eng- lish 33. Those sophomores and juniors who gather twice weekly in Harvard 6 are soon aware that here definitely is not the usual experience of being lectured to. Envirioned by the usual paraphernalia of stuffiness, the large classroom and the elevated platform, Professor Matthiessen skirts the unnecessary, lightens the formidable and weighty, and breaks through to his audience with authentic and original views of the works at hand. Those who know what most lecturers could do to revolutionary ballads are grateful...
...Austin, Borotra and Brugnon would have to win the doubles, Cochet would have to win both his singles matches. Most observers conceded the doubles to France, thought Cochet had a better than even chance against Austin. The draw caused the remaining match-the crucial one between Cochet and Eng land's debonair, black-haired Frederick Perry-to be played on the first day of the series, just before Austin disposed of Merlin...
Married. The Hon. Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor, 24, only daughter of Eng land's famed Lord & Lady Astor; and Lord Gilbert James Heathcote-Drum mond-Willoughby de Eresby, 25, horse-racing heir of the 2nd Earl of Ancaster; in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England...
When the Oxford Union startled Eng-land by voting not to bear arms ''for King or country" (TIME, Feb. 27 et seq.), echoes were soon heard in U. S. universities. A nation-wide poll on arms-bearing was undertaken by the Student Federation of America, the Brown University Daily Herald which had editorially denounced war (TIME, April 3), and the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, whose President James Frederick Green, Yaleman, was permitted to sit in on the Geneva Conference during its siesta last year. Last week the U. S. vote was published. In 27 States, at 70 colleges...