Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Very Rev. Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, 56, Canon and Precentor of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Lord Rector of Glasgow University, famed as Britain's "Broadcasting Parson"; of a heart attack; in London...
Chilled are my hands, he thought, as he stuffed them in his coat. Oh, Lord, what is the matter with me? Here I walk in dejected silence, and over there, not twenty yards away, laughter plays...
...Lord Justice Scrutton said in a great English decision upholding the liberties of a disagreeable Irish agitator...
Cockroft realized the greater potentialities of the Lawrence machine, had tried to persuade Lord Rutherford to acquire one. Rutherford was unimpressed. In Brussels, Cockroft asked Lawrence to give the old physicist a sales talk. Lawrence assented. Lord Rutherford declared it to be one of his principles that the equipment used at Cavendish should be developed there. Young Dr. Lawrence made a quick-witted thrust: "Sir, you use spectrometers in the laboratory every day, but they weren't invented there, were they...
...years ago Cambridge announced that it would build an atom-smasher of the Lawrence type. The Cavendish workers now expect their machine to be running in about a month. But Lord Rutherford will never see it start. He died last week, aged 66, after failing to rally from an abdominal operation. His passing evoked expressions of grief and tribute from all over the scientific world. Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed...