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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Example, dedicated to the Chicago-born late wife of Sir John Lavery, portraitist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death of MacDonald | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Research on the atom has attracted some of the most brilliant minds of contemporary science, and atomic history is strewn with the names of Nobel Prizewinners. Aged Sir J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron, is a Nobelman; so is Niels Bohr of Denmark and so was the late Lord Rutherford of England, who formulated atomic structure. Their atom was, and still is, a nucleus surrounded by electrons. But in the 1920's, with the powerful searchlight of relativity illuminating the atomic field, it became apparent that the picture of the electron as a simple particle of negative electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Prizes | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...umpiring, sir, will be cause for comment, a subject of dispute, and a matter of investigation...

Author: By Morgan O. Preston, | Title: Cliche Expert In Milk Street Interview Claims Harvard or Yale May Win | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...sir. It has an aggressive forward wall and a highly touted backfield. In the opening period Captain Clint Frank will run like a doer and he will pass with deadly accuracy in the final minutes. Between the halves he will exhort his team-mates to greater heights...

Author: By Morgan O. Preston, | Title: Cliche Expert In Milk Street Interview Claims Harvard or Yale May Win | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...will send trucks out tomorrow for them trunks as usual. Nobody's going to get them baggage checks away from me until then. No sir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE TRUNKS MYSTIFY SOUTH STATION; HAA IN RESCUE ROLE | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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