Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford the admission price after his 27½% income tax is paid. In the course of his swashbuckling defense of human rights. Robin saves Much, the Miller's son (Herbert Mundin). from a poaching charge; fights his way out of bristling Nottingham castle; gets poll-thwacked off a foot-log by doughty Little John (Alan Hale, a veteran of the Fairbanks Robin Hood) and ducked by puddingy Friar Tuck (Eugene Pallette), takes the huffy-puffy High Sheriff of Nottingham (Melville Cooper) neatly into camp; betters Prince John's best in archery...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science which got under way last fortnight at Nottingham (TIME, Sept. 13), and concluded its sessions last week, tidy, calm-browed Dr. Dorothy M. Wrinch of Oxford described her latest discoveries about the architecture of molecules. She showed a model of protein molecules which she had built after working them out mathematically. One typical globular molecule looked like a crocheted doily cut up and sewed together in a three-dimensional geometrical object. This she described as a "polyhexagonal lacelike pattern of atoms with the characteristic lacunae or holes, the whole forming a truncated tetrahedron...
...eyed Biologist Julian Sorell Huxley predicted at Nottingham that the old dream of eugenists-human breeding by selected males and females only-would actually be put into practice within one or two generations. Said Dr. Huxley: "When people get used to the idea they will accept it just as they have accepted birth control...
Last week in Nottingham, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, D. Sc., LL. D., F. R. S., distinguished zoology professor at Oxford, this year's president of the B. A. A. S., said: "The British Association provides a very favorable field for the discussion of many-sided subjects...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...