Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spokesman for the political world His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Spain, Sir George Grahame, begged the commission to desist. "I urge you. Sir," he told Lord Listowel, "to put aside your rôles as self-appointed inquisitors and return to England...
...never heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like a modern St. Paul, Sir James has taken it upon himself to preach the Gospel abroad, to explain the groundwork of theory which makes the work of Dirac and his peers possible. Last week appeared the newest...
...substance of Through Space and Time was delivered last winter as a course of lectures before the Royal Institution, which invites its annual speakers to discourse "in a style adapted to a juvenile auditory." Sir James took for granted almost no qualifications of his audience beyond ability to understand plain English. Highlights of the indisputable universe as presented by Evangel Jeans...
...life was left in the rocks. Five hundred million years ago sponges, jellyfish and worms appeared; fishes 400,000,000 years ago; giant reptiles 150,000,000 years ago. Well within the last 100,000,000 years birds and mammals appeared, and within the last million, man. The dates. Sir James admits, are conjectural but the sequence...
President-elect of IHA is Sir Francis Towle (pronounced Toll), managing director of Gordon Hotels, Ltd. which owns, among others, London's Mayfair, Metropole and Grosvenor. His brother Arthur Edward, also in Manhattan last week, runs the biggest hotel chain outside the U. S., a string of smaller places the length & breadth of the British Isles. On the side he directs the dining-car, restaurant and hotel division of London, Midland & Scottish...