Word: parr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Henry VIII died, Elizabeth, 13, continued living with his widow, Katherine Parr, even after the latter had married Sir Thomas Seymour. Katherine and Seymour tickled Elizabeth awake in the mornings, but the wife finally grew jealous and ousted her. Katherine died in childbirth. Seymour was executed, charged with proposing marriage to Princess Elizabeth without young King Edward's consent. Finding herself under suspicion, the 15-year-old Princess craftily sought to prove herself not pregnant by offering to go "to the court . . . that I may show myself there as I am." Intrigues threw her in jail whence...
...Katherine Parr, widow, woman of great good sense and good will. Henry was 50, his face greasy and yellow in candlelight, his hands "broken out with rings." He was going to chop off her head, but she quietly talked...
Chemistry's Value. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, preceptor of the group of brilliant chemists and physicists at the University of Illinois, and president of the chemistry society, opened the meeting with the survey usual at such affairs: "Output of chemical products in this country have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work...
...More Smoke Screen. President of the society, Professor Samuel Wilson Parr pleaded for pure air. He found 80 per cent of present fuels guilty of producing smoke, thereby increasing heating costs by waste of combustible material, increasing cleaning costs, injuring merchandise, injuring health by screening off the ultra violet rays of the sun, and corroding the lungs with sulphur fumes. He dubbed the domestic chimney more dangerous than the factory smoke stack. The inadequate supply of anthracite has been the argument for burning bituminous coal, but bituminous coal can now be perfectly converted into gas and coke which...
Elected. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, to be president of the American Chemical Society for 1928, to succeed Dr. George David Rosengarten of Philadelphia...