Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This death notice in the Sheffield Star was a British joke, but it fitted the dubious, unenthusiastic mood with which many Britons greeted "Vesting Day," i.e., the day last week when the government formally took over the nation's 80 major steel companies...
Forbes, who is a teacher of legal medicine in Sheffield University in England and deputy coroner for the city of Sheffield, came to this country to see how American police track down killers...
Matter of Principle. In Sheffield, England, Walter Marshall admitted his guilt and was fined ?50 for breaking a store windowdespite his plea that he threw the stone in outraged innocence after being unjustly fined ?10 for breaking the same window...
...caused all the commotion entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1903. He settled down in a small room at 124 Wall street (it was long before the College plan) and proceeded to take his studies by storm. He won "General Honors" for three consecutive years and wrote a thesis on "The Geometry of the Line Elements in a Plane with Reference to the Oscillating Circles." The 1906 Class Book says, "Gundelfinger is one of the brightest men in our class...
...atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done to bring peace . . . every attempt must be made to seize upon the slightest evidence of good feeling between nations...