Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Binyon, the seventh writer to hold the Professorship, is known as an author and playwright, and also as an authority on Oriental Art. At the present time he holds the position of Deputy Keeper in charge of Oriental prints and drawings at the British Museum, with which he has been connected since 1893. He was educated at St. Paul's School, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he received the Newdigate Prize in 1890. He has delivered lectures in America on three previous occasions, visiting Boston in 1912 as a Lowell Lecturer...
...explain radio, among other natural phenomena, physicists have imagined a stretchy blanket of ions encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard's Bombay-born Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly and England's late (1850-1925) Oliver Heaviside, bookstore keeper who for amusement invented mathematical forms to describe the behavior of alternating currents. Radio waves are presumed to reflect from the Layer much as light beams reflect from a mirror. Estimates place the Layer at 50 to 250 mi. from Earth's surface and picture it as roughly spherical.* At night the Layer shrinks...
...prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker was in his cell. So of course we couldn't count him. He heard we were looking for him, so he introduced himself.") Present were Charles Willis and John...
...Lubinsky's real name is Lev Davidovitch Bronstein. He is far better known as Leon Trotsky, a name he is variously said to have borrowed from either a Kosher restaurant keeper in New York or his first jailer. Many times during his residence on Prinkipo the exiled Soviet leader has begged permission to travel. Nervous capitalist governments have always refused. Last week with...
...story of the acquisition of great wealth, through a lottery ticket by the family of a poor Parisian shop-keeper. After many trials and tribulations, the family decides that it was happier when it was poor, and consequently returns to its former scale of living...