Word: prime
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more bye-elections are due soon, and last week the Prime Minister and new Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax swung into a series of local addresses by which they hope to educate British public opinion in their real points of view. Of Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax said: "I look forward to the time when the country will again enjoy the benefit of his service and guidance in its administration! . . . It is no fault of the League of Nations and still less of His Majesty's Government, but . . . if we were to act as some suggest and try to organize...
...dared to stand against him, another in which the Conservative candidate was defeated by Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill, who thus becomes the twelfth female M.P. Dr. Summerskill had fought her Labor campaign as much as possible in the vein of defending handsome young Conservative Anthony Eden against the Conservative Prime Minister, so His Majesty's Government were chagrined to lose this bye-election...
King George and Queen Elizabeth, who promptly took likable, new U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy & family into the Buckingham Palace family circle, had these new American friends down to Windsor Castle for the week end. Also present were Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain. London has taken to the Kennedy children almost as enthusiastically as though they were the King's own moppets, and the Sunday Observer has recently come out with the results of a competition in which Britons have been writing verses on the U. S. Ambassador's recent hole-in-one at Stoke Poges...
...longevity of bedbugs. By laborious laboratory experiments he had established the fact that in England's dank atmosphere, balmy to bugs, a sturdy Cimex might survive for years on end. The one condition: plenty to eat and no trouble getting it. Running after food was the prime cause of mortality among his experimental bugs. How long a really pampered bedbug could live, Researcher Mellanby's report did not tell...
...Prime piece of apparatus is a vertical, hollow cylinder, five feet high and four feet in diameter. On the inside wall of the cylinder are alternating black & white stripes, running vertically from top to bottom. These stripes can be adjusted in width from a maximum of five inches down to Moth inch. The animal is placed inside the cylinder, which is then turned slowly by hand. If the animal makes eye or head movements following the rotation, it is assumed that it can see the stripes. Their width is progressively diminished until the animal stops turning its eyes- thus showing...