Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Vere Gordon Child kindly reminded the photographer that he had not set his camera right, and showed him the proper setting. Professor Peter Dobye said American youth needed a Hitler to give them action, as had been done in Germany. Professor Edgar D. Adrian was one of the few who refused to have his picture taken, terming it an "ignorant, embarrassing situation...
...forces which caused the germination of various cultures before the beginning of recorded history were discussed by Vere Gordon Childe, Professor of Prehistoric Archeology at the University of Edinburgh, in an address entitled "A Prehistorian's Interpretation of Diffusion." Although Professor Childe started out by saying: "Discussions of diffusion are apt to degenerate into combats where in only dust is diffused . . ." he made some very definite comments concerning the influence of environmental factors in aiding intercourse between the urban civilizations of the early Orient...
This left the Great Powers rebuffed and helpless, unless they were willing to intervene. Only voice of note to speak up on this risky point was that of the Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. "Mediation? Who can undertake the task?" he asked. "It would be a great thing if the leading European powers would attempt it, but this might lead only to dissension among themselves. . . . 'Disquieting signs that the world seems to be going mad have come from this horrible civil war in Spain...
...Waxey Gordon!" cried a detective in the lineup. "It's Maxie Price!'' cried another...
...Both Gordon and Price were found to be safe & sound in the penitentiary...