Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone reminded the President at Friday's press conference that it was his 15Oth since he entered the White House. "I congratulate you on your endurance," remarked the President. The correspondents chorused: "Same to you, Sir!" But the President was not in a humorous mood. He taxed the reporters for giving the country a "bum steer." The reporters countered by asking if Mr. Roosevelt now had anything specific to say about his future money policies. Impatiently the President told them: "I am neither a prestidigitator nor an astrologer." Forthwith he denied that he and Senator Bulkley had talked about...
Into the awe-struck silence of the courtroom spoke Coroner Sir Samuel Brighouse last week: "Bloor has openly, and I think very openly, admitted that it was through an error on his part that the unfortunate occurrence took place. I think that Bloor was carrying out his duties as faithfully and honestly and as well as he could. If you believe that you will return a verdict of Misadventure...
...mere football game. This week, however, you can hear it in the dining hall, on the steps of Sever and even in front of the Library, where tradition has always kept the conversation much more on the academic side. The burning issue of the hour is whether Sir John can whip the Purple Knight. After that, according to the dining hall quarterbacks, everything will be certain one way or the other. They say that if Harvard beats Holy Cross it is going through the season without difficulty. Even Princeton is beginning to lose its terrors and quotations of even money...
...Died. Sir Ernest Burford Horlick, 54, Lord of the Manor of Cowley, chairman of Horlick's Malted Milk Co., Ltd. of London, Wartime R. F. C. captain; after brief illness; in Paris...
...there has also been a cosmic disturbance between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who thought the rays were by-products of the steady annihilation of star substance. To pious Dr. Millikan the notion of a universe crumbling to chaos was repugnant. But to honest Dr. Millikan a fact is a fact. The fact that moved him to change his mind, he admitted last week, was the high energy of some cosmic rays. Low energy rays might still be deemed to arise from the building of elements. But when rays of 10,000,000,000 volts are detected...