Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed last week as if British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, a wispy-looking sahib whose friends call him "Snatch," would have completely recovered from the machine-gunning he received last month before the British Government could manage to pry a reply as to this outrage from the Japanese Government...
...last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and André François-Poncet, French Ambassador...
...some 3,000 were this summer at the annual camp meeting he holds at Ommen, Holland, on property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji," an honorific title roughly meaning "Sir Krishna." Last week, looking nearer 20 than 42, with a few streaks of gray in his thick black hair, Krishnaji refreshed himself at "Sarobia" chiefly by playing vigorous, bounding badminton. This week some 60 picked believers will be allowed to meet with him for a fortnight of discussions at "Sarobia." Then...
British scientists as a class are less afraid of their colleagues' opinion than U. S. scientists, and at their meetings they adhere less to the orthodox line of matter-of-fact reporting. In his presidential address Sir Edward, who is 81, indulged an old man's privilege of reminiscing at will. He has been going to B. A. A. S. meetings for 56 years and he remembers the shifting course of B. A. A. S. opinion about organic evolution. That was what he talked about last week...
There still exists a good deal of controversy about how evolution works, but even old Sir Edward cannot remember back to the time when the evolution process itself was attacked by reputable scientists. However, smoke from the old battle of Lamarckism v. Natural Selection has not yet finally cleared. Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory. Natural Selection holds that accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest...