Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reynolds shows Lady Cecil Rice, the work painted in 1762, at a time when he was near the peak of his skill. It was only a month before that he had turned out his master portrait, "his perfect Nelly O'Brien." But Lady Rice resembles a very different person, who by the turn and tilt of her head, her sidewise and dreamy look, is distinguished and gentle. Reynolds' subdued colors, the faint blues for her gown, and the gray-greens for the trees and sky, suit her perfectly...
...authoritative Tokyo quarters last week it was reported that the War Minister, having surveyed the China War in person, will recommend an immediate supreme Japanese effort to take Hankow, will probably carry the Japanese Cabinet with him into this bold of rash policy. General Sugiyama was said to be impressed with the historical concept "Hankow is the Military Heart of China," to have convinced himself that once this "heart" is in Japanese hands it will be impossible for the Chinese to keep up organized resistance. With the fall of Hankow, the Japanese would not merely have taken another "Chinese Capital...
Edgar Zodiag Friedenberg, 17, is the youngest person ever to appear on a convention program of the American Chemical Society. He is also the brashest. A precocious, articulate young man with an active mind and critical spirit, son of a retired Louisiana merchant, Edgar will graduate this June, loaded with honors, from Centenary College (Shreveport, La.), expects to start graduate study next fall at Stanford. In his 17 years Edgar Friedenberg has been much annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage...
...Ales Hrdlicka, 69, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, believes that as a person gets older his skull gets bigger, because of increasing brain size-at least if the person is intellectually active. He got one of his first confirmations of this theory from British Archeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, 80. Last week he reported receiving word of increasing head size from 58 professors, lawyers, ministers, financiers and writers, including three women...
...down the backstairs by getting the public holders of C. & O. common stock to rally to the defense of its present officers. Last week at the C. & O. meeting in Richmond they did so 3,175,000 shares (41%) strong, said to be the largest number of stockholders by person or proxy at any meeting in C. & O. history. Since Chesapeake Corp. has only a 35% interest, Robert Young felt pretty sure last week that even if he loses his control through the holding companies, the present officers of C. & O. will keep their jobs...