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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Viscountess was the general manager of her weekly magazine Time & Tide (no kin), Miss D. S. Stanhope. Its staff is 100% female, its regular contributors about equally divided as to sex, Bernard Shaw and the "Provincial Lady," Miss E. M. Delafield, sharing honors with Economist Sir Norman Angell and Novelist Rebecca West, Dramatist Sean O'Casey. "In England people have stopped reading Punch in favor of the New Yorker," said the publisher Viscountess, "and most intelligent English people read TIME every week, even though during recent months large sections have often been clipped...
...Sir Robert Hatfield, world-famous English metallurgist and inventor of manganese and silicon steels, betrayed unscientific traces of superstition while presenting a gift to President Conant...
...gift was a miniature pen knife made from a piece of platinum steel produced by Faraday over a hundred years ago. Together with the knife, Sir Robert enclosed a letter requesting that a penny be paid in return, citing the age-honored fear that should a pointed instrument be given away, a quarrel is sure to ensue between the two parties involved. President Conant said that he will comply with the request...
...knife accompanied several other gifts which Sir Robert presented to the University in honor of its Tercentenary...
...said he had been a soldier who had died in the ''German War": up to the age of four "he used to play frog-leap and other peculiar games. He playfully walked in military fashion and gave cautions." Mr. Yeats-Brown revisited his old friends Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Sir JagadisBose, botanist famed for his experiments on the nervous systems of plants...