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...Exeter-for 26 years an M. P. for Oxford University, now provost of Eton. Living in a stratosphere of piety, Lord Hugh regards the Established Church as above and apart from England's Protestant sects. "Scandalous"' it was, to him, when some years ago the Bishop of Liverpool announced that he would let Unitarians be guest preachers in his cathedral. Last week in London, in a speech before the Assembly of the Church of England, Churchman Cecil again bracketed Unitarians-of whom there are 5,000 in England-with scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Incombustible Unitarian | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...circumnavigation of the world of space-time curved within the convolutions of his brain. The voyage proceeds along a course unexploited by earlier epic navigators. These poet-navigators attempted to carry their loads to their readers' understandings somewhat as Australian grain boats, knot by knot, carry wheat to Liverpool. Poet Pound's boating is more like a torpedo bug's: he scoots about his map every which way, and tries to be everywhere on it as simultaneously as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contra Naturam | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...circumvent England's Betting & Lotteries Act, all transactions are on credit, cash is sent the following week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash, he is promptly put on the Confidential Black List which all promoters keep in common. One establishment, Littlewood's of Liverpool, has received so many pennies and pounds that it has grown from a backroom office to four huge buildings with 5,000 employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: September to May | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

When extracted from the plant, chlorophyll as a catalyst is no longer effective. Scores of laboratories working on the problem of imitating natural photosynthesis have tried other catalysts, but none works so efficiently as chlorophyll. Some ten years ago at the University of Liverpool, Professor Edward Charles Cyril Baly obtained formaldehyde, sugar and starch from carbon dioxide, water and artificial white light, using nickel oxide as a catalyst, but in tiny quantities and at low efficiencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Photosynthesis | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Impeccably groomed journalists on the platform of Liverpool Street Station were mistaken for a reception committee of impeccably groomed British statesmen last week by arriving King Christian X of Denmark. After shaking hands with them, His Majesty noticed their notebooks and pencils, remarked easily, "I see you are writers. I'll give you no trouble and will be a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Visiting Kings | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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