Word: listers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheet on a long wooden table, a couple of wooden buckets alongside and on a side table a basin of warm water. Handy were the heavy knives and other instruments Dr. McDowell operated with, the bayonet-like needles, silver suture wire, waxed thread for ligatures. Nothing was sterilized, for Lister's and Pasteur's work was still 60-70 years in the future...
...John Eldon Bankes, last week watched his eminently dignified investigation skid off into the ditch of sensationalism. First a spokesman for 26 peace organizations uprose to charge that two members of the present Cabinet owned shares in the great munitions firm of Vickers: the Right Honorable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet may be in a position to benefit personally, however slightly, from the breakdown of armament...
Blushed Cunliffe-Lister: "I plead slightly guilty. I find to my surprise that I own three shares of Vickers stock bringing me dividends of 7½ shillings a year. I thought I had sold all my Vickers holdings years ago." Star accusation of the session was made when Harry Pollitt, testifying on behalf of the British Communist Party, charged that George V's own cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, held 5,000 5% preference shares of Vickers...
...award in landscape architecture went to a graduate of Harvard and of Cornell's College of Architecture: James Mackenzie Lister...
Last week Winners Green, Proctor and Lister went to Manhattan to be with their winning entries in the Prix de Rome show at the Grand Central Art Galleries. Confronted with a microphone they spoke a few words of modest thankfulness for the two idyllic years ahead...