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...account of Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget's "most extrawd'nry" experience in that bathroom and his clever solution of the mystery, which he promptly reported to Nature. Few men in England could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed by sharply defined steps...
Weary but affable in the Cabinet room, President Hoover sat for his portrait to Douglas Chandor, scion of Hungarian nobility, private soldier for England throughout the War, poet,* linguist, painter-extraordinary for TIME.? In the Green Room, Mrs. Hoover sat for Artist Gleb Ilyin, Russian emigre, now popular in California...
...Soderblom. Newsgatherers recalled that their last story about him was when he dropped a key out of a rowboat after the funeral of the last of Sweden's famed Brahe family (TIME, June 30). There was no surprise, however, among theologians. Churchmen know Archbishop Soderblom as a scholar, linguist-he speaks ten languages, has written books in German, French, English, Swedish, Dutch-and an incessant worker for Church Unity and World Peace. In 1925 in an attempt to unite at least the Protestant sects of Christianity, he helped organize the Christian Conference on Life & Work at Stockholm...
...Painter Jan Van Delft Vermeer) of a family of doctors and lawyers. Her early writings awoke parental anxiety. At 20 she married, discontinued writing until her two sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House of Joy, The Rebel Generation...
...September of a single year. A reference to the representative course of study above given will show that he has not studied Plane Geometry for a year, that he has not studied Algebra for two years. If the school believes that no boy expect one planning to be a linguist should give over half of his time to the rudiments of three foreign languages, and if it has sought relief from this necessity by attempting to discard the old plan entirely, he has not studied at all the extra language needed to complete the total of sixteen and one-half...