Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief rival of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister is the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, who last week scored heavy personal and political gains with a speech on naval and air defense which caught the warm approval of the House, recalled that Sir Samuel not many years ago was Secretary for Air and today is promoting close co-operation between these two fighting services, previously too often on quarrelsome terms...
Proxima Centauri, the sun's nearest neighbor among the stars, is 25 trillion miles away from Earth. Even if it had a family of planets, no telescope could reveal them. According to Sir James Jeans, a star which has a brood of planets must be an exceedingly rare thing in the sky; the solar system may be unique among the billions of stars which constitute the Milky Way galaxy. To Sir James it is a simple matter of mathematical probability. He has done much to propagate the "tidal theory" of the solar system's origin which is probably...
When his fishing launch failed to reach Key West on schedule, two Coast Guard planes flew off in search of Sir Charles Ross, inventor of the Ross rifle, no kin to the Charley Ross kidnapped from Germantown, Pa. in 1874 and still missing. Same day Sir Charles turned up safe...
Dramatic Club members are playing the male leads in the Erskine School's "Merry Wives of Windsor" which opened at the Repertory Theatre last night. John L. Profit '40 has the part of Sir John Falstaff. Richard H. Seymour is playing Mr. Page in the production. Important supporting positions will be handled by Russell E. Sard, Jr. '39, and James H. Legendre...
AFTERMATH-Sir James George Frazer -Macmillan ($3). Supplementary volume to The Golden Bough, classic collection of primitive customs, beliefs...