Word: paget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 33, a member of TIME Inc.'s London staff, son of the late famed Austrian librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier); and Lady Elizabeth Paget, 22, trainbearer to Queen Elizabeth at her coronation; his second (first wife: Vincent Astor's sister, Alice); in London...
...professional gamblers professed to like Dorothy Paget's Kilstar, an 8-year-old brown gelding which Miss Paget bought last year for $1,500 from a cavalry officer who could no longer afford to keep him. Kilstar stood firm at 8-1, but England's shillings rained down on H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli, which last year lost by a mere neck to Battleship. By race time the odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire...
...queer, blurred, atonal voice like that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...
About the same time in Aberdeen, Physicist George Paget Thomson, able son of Sir Joseph John, obtained the same result by a different method. He used much more high-powered electrons, around 50,000 volts. These were able to penetrate the crystalline structure of a film of metal one-millionth of an inch thick. After emerging they were still strong enough to impress a photographic plate, and Thomson obtained the first pictures of diffraction rings created by electrons...
Last week the Swedish Academy of Sciences reached back ten years in atomic history, back to the experimental demonstrators of the wave nature of electrons, awarded to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. Each will receive about $20,000. Said dark, lantern-jawed Dr. Davisson, already much honored for his researches: "I am suffering from a bad case of stage fright...