Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LONDON--The British Admiralty announced today that three of Germany's six cruisers had been sunk or crippled and that these, together with the sinking of a German submarine and the "suicide" of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, brought to five the number of warships lost by the Germans since last Wednesday...
Last fortnight Scotland's famed physiologist, 68-year-old Sir Robert Hutchison, made some remarks on the style of British and American medical literature. Occasion: A David Lloyd Roberts (famed obstetrician who died in 1920) memorial lecture before the London Medical Society. The average time before papers get into print in scientific journals is around 12 months, but last week's issue of the British Lancet gave Sir Robert's speech front-page billing. Excerpts...
...Tower of London (Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone; TIME...
...loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school belfry. While Father Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker in Boston and London, Pierpont went to school at Vevey, Switzerland ("makes fun of things," noted the schoolmaster); later to the University of Gottingen, where he proved himself a born mathematician, fond of fine clothing and the fair sex. "No one ever enjoyed shopping more than...
...John M. London '41 undergraduate chairman, summed up the objective of the conference as being "to give every man who wants to have an integrated, well-rounded concept of the world an opportunity to discuss the very vital subject of propaganda from as many viewpoints as possible...