Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second Boylston prize, consisting of $35, was won by Shipherd Robinson '36, who recited selections from President Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon. Robert A. Robinson '36, who gave excerpts from Charles Evans Hugh's "A Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on His Ninetieth Birthday," won the third Boylston prize, also...
Delivering judgment last week, Life Peer Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, stressed the essential point that Scion Astor, in setting up his U. S. trust, "reserved the right to revoke the trust wholly or in part during his life." Hereafter Heir Astor will pay British income tax only on that part of his U. S. income which is brought into Great Britain...
...Princeton, where intensive research on the heavy forms of hydrogen was under way, Dr. Pierce Wilson Selwood took 75 tons of tap water and started reducing it by repeated electrolysis and selective evaporation. The tons shrank to hundredweights, the hundredweights to pounds, the pounds to ounces. Last week Chairman Hugh Stott Taylor of the Chemistry Department announced that Dr. Selwood's final residue is ten drops (half a gram) of heavy water containing one part of tritium in 10,000- richest sample of triple-weight hydrogen in the world, possibly rich enough to reveal something of its properties...
...which these production numbers interrupt, more witty and ingenious than its predecessors, shows a pair of rascally theatrical entrepreneurs (Adolphe Menjou and Joe Cawthorn) engaged in fleecing a stingy dowager (Alice Brady) who hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Dorothy Dare appear in their usual capacities, help put the production on a grander scale than anything ever seen outside a Warner sound stage. Trick shot: an unidentified tap dancer's feet photographed from below, through a glass floor...
...protest to the Securities Exchange Act, it was strenuous public opposition, and nothing else, that made that measure in its final form a workable piece of legislation. Moreover, the President's views by no means jibed with the harsh wording of the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill itself, which President Hugh S. Magill of the American Federation of Utility Investors called "one of the most autocratic and destructive measures ever introduced in Congress...