Word: nobeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman Angell, Nobel Peace Prizewinner of 1933, suggested that peace might now be preserved by avoiding a "policy of indefinite retreat before Russian power." "Otherwise," he wrote in The Steep Places (Harper; $3), "there will happen what happened before the second World War: we acquiesce in the advance of a hostile system because we insist that it is not so bad. Then when it is on top of us, we conclude that it is very bad indeed and decide to resist. But. . . aggression has attained a momentum too great to stop...
Last week, the institute invited three more famous names to join its lighthouse of civilization. The three: Denmark's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Niels D. Bohr (who has been there once before), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (who presumably will work on the last volumes of A Study of History) and Poet T. S. Eliot (St. Louis-born, but a British subject since 1927). The institute didn't ask them what they would do; it was satisfied to let grown-up minds continue growing...
...brought up in Virginia City, Nev., where his father ran a dry-goods store. It was a brilliant family. His sister Miriam was a successful novelist. His brother Albert became one of the world's great physicists, whose measurements of the speed of light won him the Nobel Prize in 1907, and helped Einstein develop the theory of relativity. Albert once candidly remarked that Charley was the most brilliant of them...
Bernadotte's great-grandson, Gustaf, has worn galoshes throughout his reign, and has been bothered by neither colds nor revolutions. As added health measures, he has taken annual junkets to the Riviera, stuck to tennis, Nobel Prize speeches, and other strictly constitutional exercises. One of his most independent and controversial achievements was the discovery in a Paris cafe, in 1934, of Hildegarde, the "French" chanteuse from Milwaukee. He has been close to his subjects, even liked to answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King...
...with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected a lot from me," protested the 1920 Nobel Prizewinner, "but they were not altogether pleased." Altogether pleasing or not, Collaborator Hamsun owed the nation $86,000, the court decided...