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Harold Spencer Jones, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., is England's Astronomer Royal. A hardheaded, straight-thinking scientist, who refers to writings of Eddington and Jeans as "romance," he is, ex officio, director of Greenwich Observatory and responsible for Greenwich time's astronomical integrity.* The question he has heard most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Beyond Earth? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Exit Rieber | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

In the closing chapter, The Empire Will Not Die, cool, hardheaded Albert Viton turns his back on the rest of his book, begins to comfort himself and the reader with such emotional catch-phrases as "this amazing little island"; to deliver such debatable statements as "Few countries can boast as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The British (Cont'd) | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Such hardihood was not welcome to Melville's time. But Melville had a spiritual successor in William Graham Sumner, a hardheaded thinker who began at Yale in 1872 a study he called the "science of society." Professor Gabriel is as trenchant, critical and readable on Sumner as he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faith and Democracy | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Chosen to drag the industry out of the woods was a big, burly, hardheaded, quail-hunting Valdosta judge named Harley Langdale. No. 1 U. S. turpentiner, he and his associates grossed better than $500,000 last year from 70,000 owned, 300,000 leased acres of Southern pine. As president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORESTRY: Troubled Turpentiners | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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