Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit to the Royal Family over, Sir Hari remained in London for a short time before crossing over to Paris to disport himself. In this brief interval, he succumbed to the wiles of a certain bewitching Mrs. Robinson. Apparently, however, the Raja did not treat his ladylove with the liberality that she had expected. Therefore, according to the evidence given at the trial, she became implicated in a plot...
Recently, Dr. James H. Jeans delivered a paper before the Royal As- tronomical Society (London). It so aroused Prof. Henry H. Turner of Oxford that he reverted to the venerable English pastime of "writing to the Times" about the "remarkable occur-rence." Unlike so many letters written to the Times, Professor Turner's letter Avas taken up by the press on both sides of the Atlantic, reprinted and headlined and garbled until a small but respectable portion of the earth's inhabitants had been instructed that the Einstein theory had led scientists to believe that other suns than...
...bellringers, no matter how much they caper or warm their fingers. Biggest of all was the great bell of Moscow, cast around 1734, now used as the dome of a chapel. Other big bells are those of Burma, weight, 260,000 Ib.; Peking, 130,000 Ib.; House of Parliament, London, 30,000 Ib.; Montreal Cathedral, 28,560 Ib.; Notre Dame, Paris, 28,672 Ib.; St. Peter's, Rome, 18,600 Ib.; St. Paul's, London...
...London, the Royal Philharmonic Society gave its first concert of the .season. Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed German who will fill a guest engagement with the New York Philharmonic this year (TIME, Dec. 8), was the conductor. Old is the Royal Philharmonic Society. When it opened its season 100 years ago, Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C Minor was played for the first time in England...
...question of the award of class numerals to Freshmen who go to New London as substitutes, and row in the combination crew against Yale was referred to the Student Council for its report and recommendation...