Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headlong pacifiers, checked, promised to move cautiously against a repetition of the 1927 Geneva Conference fiasco. Meanwhile disarmament sentiment was growing in Britain. Impulsive was the suggestion of Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Wartime member of the British General Staff, that Britain should abandon her naval bases in the Caribbean as a gesture of international goodwill. For home consumption he pointed out that the West Indian stations were expensive and of small value, and added...
...greatest fruits of education is the ability to choose your reading intelligently. A Senior who knows enough about the poetry of Charles Kingsley to discuss it for twenty minutes should be penalized, not praised...
...because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty minutes, and all these little problems deal with trivialities, such as Swift's verse, or Charles Kingsley as a poet and novelist...
Popularly obscure may be Union Carbide & Carbon, not at all is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, last week elected Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman. Following the death (TIME, April 8 et seq.} of Myron Timothy Herrick, who was Honorary Board Chairman, George O. Knapp, Board Chairman, added Honorary to his title and Mr. Billings, member of the Executive Committee, moved into the Chairmanship. Not carbon, however, but horses provide the basis for Mr. Billings' popular fame. For to trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses...
Calmer alumni pointed to Girard trustees like Lawyer Owen Josephus Roberts, whom President Coolidge chose as special Federal prosecutor in the Oil Scandals (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), and William H. Kingsley, a Girard alumnus. They felt sure that trustees like these would keep intact the Girard endowment, even supposing that Senator-suspect Vare might be covetous, which seemed to them impractical if not incredible...