Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Gordon Hewart, 73, Viscount of Bury, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1922 to 1940; after long illness; in Totteridge, Herefordshire. A rolypoly little man with a high voice, a low opinion of bureaucracy, broad interests, considerable wit, he read Horace before breakfast, spoke in epigrams, was one of England's greatest liberals. A Lancashire draper's son and a newspaperman before he entered the law, he was King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality...
...eight years Ontario's Premier had been Mackenzie King's flamboyant enemy, Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn. Last October Mitch resigned, named pompous Gordon Conant (known to Toronto newsmen as "God") to succeed him. Conant thought until last week that he would be the new Premier. When Liberals, including Hepburn, ignored him at the Party convention and deserted him, Conant went off to a hospital to rest. Mitch himself stayed in political retirement on his onion farm...
...concludes Eye-man Gordon Lynn Walls (of Bausch & Lomb) in the current Journal of Applied Physics. Dr. Walls's theories will hardly quiet the old argument as to whether the bull sees red, or merely the movement of the matador's cape. Dog lovers will continue to protest the thought that their pets live in a colorless grey world.* But Biologist Walls outlines a hypothesis of color vision new to the layman. The ability to see colors Dr. Walls links directly to visual acuity-the ability to see well. He points out that the vertebrates with the greatest...
Practices for this RSOP were held at the Field last week and last Tuesday and were pronounced satisfactory by Cadet Major Corrigan, BC of Battery 2 and Cadet Captain Gordon, Tuesday's BC. Wire communication was obtained in all gun emplacements but, because of a shortage of WTs, it was fairly slow going in during the first practice RSOP. With an enlarged personnel, the battery is expected to function more smoothly tomorrow...
...Texas House of Representatives last week found some of George Gordon, Lord Byron's writings "not fit to be read by any person within or without the University [of Texas]." The House resolved to investigate the $20,000 purchase, for the university's noted rare-book collection, of early editions of Byron, Browning, Lamb, Shelley, Tennyson and Petronius Arbiter. All the House charged, were "obscene" or "atheistic...