Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January a British battle squadron was plowing in double column in maneuvers off the coast of Spain. On the yardarm of the flagship, the enormous battle cruiser Hood, appeared a flag signal for the squadron to form single line of battle. H. M. S. Renown, leading the second column, swung sharply inward. The Hood continued stubbornly on her course. Amid warning siren hoots, the two ships crashed together. No one was injured but Renown limped to Gibraltar for temporary repairs. The heavier Hood suffered $40,000 damages. Who was to blame...
Harvard joins Professor kittredge's family in extending to him heartiest congratulations on the occasion of his 75th birthday wishing him continued success and, if possible, further renown than he has thus far so justly merited...
Last spring the H.A.A. announced that the concessions at Soldiers Field during the football season had been given over into the hands of professional caterers whose renown was sung throughout the Middle West as purveyors of the better brand of hot dogs...
...Schweitzer, one of the world's ablest theologians. The answer was given by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, one of the most famed medical missionaries in the West African jungle. The occasion was Dr. Schweitzer's appearance in England last October to deliver the Hibbert Lectures, given annually by men of renown at Manchester College, Oxford and University College, London. To report Dr. Schweitzer's words The Christian Century had a stenographer on hand. Last week and the week before that alert U. S. interdenominational weekly summarized the Hibbert Lectures, which will later be published in book form...
Died. William Lawrence Clements, 73, famed collector of early Americana and first citizen of Bay City, Mich.; in Bay City. Son of an enterprising steel manufacturer, he took over and ably expanded his father's business, retired a rich man in 1924. Growing apace, meantime, was the renown of the books & manuscripts he was carefully assembling. In 1923 he presented them to the University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister...