Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holbein found a friend and patron in the great Theologian Erasmus whom he painted many times. The younger Holbein made a name for himself in Basle. Came the depression of the 1520's, however, and Erasmus sent him packing off to England with a letter of introduction to Sir Thomas More (Utopia). Holbein's first series of English portraits were not of court celebrities but of the scholars of More's circle...
...tycoon had resigned the presidency, remaining only as a director. In his place, not as president but as general manager, the company put Clarence Leich, part owner of two A. B. C. stations in Evansville, Ind. To a newshawk who asked reasons for his resignation, Mr. Insull snapped testily: "Sir! The company's statement stands. It speaks for itself...
Born. To Astronomer Sir James Hopwood Jeans (The Mysterious Universe), 59; and Mrs. Susi Hock Jeans, 25; a son; in London...
...Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, speaker at the recent Tercentenary Conference, professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and British Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, will remain for a few months as Edward K. Dunham Lecturer at the Medical School, where he will deliver a series of public lectures this fall...
Among the most prominent of the visiting professors are Sir Frederick G. Hopkins and Etienne Gilson. Sir Frederick is a British Nobel Prize winner, and a distinguished pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year...