Word: hume
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clouse was unanimously named best speaker of the evening by the judging panel, which included Overton Hume Taylor, lecturer on Economics, Phillip G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, and Charles D. Hyson of the Economic Department...
...Washington, replacing Ambassador Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, went Humphrey Hume Wrong* (he eschews the "Humphrey"), who has been called "about the closest thing to an aristocrat Canada is capable of producing...
...tall, slim, lofty-browed scholar, Hume Wrong was born in Toronto 52 years ago, was brought up by his historian-father George Wrong in the British tradition. He studied at the University of Toronto and Oxford, served in the British Army in World War I (the Canadians rejected him because of a childhood injury to his left eye), then taught modern history at Toronto for six years before joining the Department of External Affairs (U.S. equivalent: State Department) in 1927. He had served in Washington, Geneva and London before becoming Associate Under Secretary in Ottawa...
...confused with his cousin, Hume Wright, who is already stationed in Washington as Third Secretary at the Canadian embassy...
...Hartford, Conn, lives a man who has proved that the mating cycles of many birds and animals can be controlled by artificially altering the length of their days & nights (TIME, June 28, 1943). His name is Dr. Thomas Hume Bissonnette, and he is Trinity College's photoperiodist. Last week Dr. Bissonnette quoted Tennyson...