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...British were given a new reassurance. Somewhere off the coast of Britain, with their anti-aircraft guns loaded and alert destroyers screening them against possible submarines, the King George V, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Jellicoe and Beatty were reported by Britain's foremost naval commentator Hector Bywater to be undergoing their trials before joining the fleet. If all five of these 35,000-ton ships have reached this stage of completion, the British have done some fast work, for on ordinary schedule most of them would not have been completed till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Dead Ships, Baby Ships | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Slumped across a table in the same British cotton mill the next night, the body of Mill-Employe Hector McAllister was found. Since there were no marks of violence, British suspected he had been poisoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Incidents | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Hector Dowd is slated to get the call for starting hurling duties against the Crimson today with Johnny Desmond as his battery-mate. Bill Cerny, victim of the tenth-inning splurge on April 15 which netted Harvard eight runs, and George Smith are ready to do relief work if Dowd fails to go the route...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: NINE FACES LIONS AT SOLDIERS FIELD | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...Hector Dowd is a fairly dependable Junior flinger, George Smith has good posibilities, and John Corny has pitched before. But that's about as far as it goes. Coach Coakley's starting nine, however, is not definitely decided, because wide-open fights are still being waged for several positions...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: DARTMOUTH NINE IS SHORT OF CAPABLE INFIELD MEN | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

That the delicate linings of the nose are influenced by sex hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sex & Hearing | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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