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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday's practice was marred by two slight injuries to A squad members. O'Loughlin, 194-pound tackle, who has looked very good on defense, suffered a wrenched knee, a recurrence of an old injury. Ready, who has been filling the center post regularly, injured a nerve in the back of his leg. Both may be in shape to play Saturday, however...
...president & publisher. Succeeding him last week in the key executive job as manager was Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, 41, onetime logger who has been the Oregonian's managing editor since 1933. Editor Paul Roelofson Kelty, "Ep" Hoyt's boss until four years ago, stayed at his post. Youthful Lester Arden ("Pang") Pangborn was upped from executive news editor to managing editor. Retained as nonresident consultant was Newspaper Doctor Guy T. Viskniskki, who was summoned in 1934 to modernize the ailing Oregonian (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935), did such a good job it is once more Portland's largest...
...week there was an unwonted scurry and bustle on the top floors of King William's palace. The reason was not the war panic swirling over Europe, but the fact that William Lawrence Bragg, having hardly settled down at Teddington, had been appointed to a newer and loftier post: Cavendish Professor at Cambridge University. "Cavendish Professor" means director of the Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics. This post, which Bragg takes over this week, is regarded- in England at least-as the world's top scientific...
...laboratory as a "Mecca of physics for the Empire." Reason for Cavendish's supremacy may be simply stated. Cambridge and Oxford are the only two British universities with whopping endowments to provide the equipment necessary to attract distinguished researchers from outside. Although Oxford is getting a fine new post-graduate medical school and already has a world-famed low-temperature laboratory, it has otherwise been content to leave Cambridge a clear field for leadership in science. Oxford's angel is Lord Nuffield, automobile maker. Cambridge's No. 1 benefactor in recent years is another motor-maker, Herbert...
...William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, who discovered the "noble" gases (Argon, Helium, etc.) and made the most accurate contemporary determinations of the ohm and the ampere. He got a Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters in an old laboratory, is said...