Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, rejected a demand of government charwomen for a pay increase of threepence, three farthings (6.2?) an hour. He offered them one farthing (four-tenths of 1?) instead. One, angrier than the rest, sat down, composed a Christmas card, read it to a meeting of 1,000 sister chars. The greeting...
...happy Christmas and New Year I wish for you, Sir Stafford Dear, From one whose Christmas couldn't be leaner...
Last week, Sir Edward came down to earth: he had just been made Principal of Scotland's great University of Edinburgh. When a TIME correspondent asked to see him, Sir Edward said he had neither the time nor the inclination to be interviewed. But, he added, he knew all about TIME style, and though it "shocked my modesty," would interview himself...
...Sir Edward Victor Appleton has spent most of his 56 years with his head in the clouds. He has accomplished a lot up there. "The ionosphere," a colleague once said of Sir Edward, "is his playground." He proved the theory that the earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
...Chubby in build and cheery in face, Sir Edward likes human beings, and says it will be a terrible wrench to leave his closest colleagues in the British Civil Service [since 1939, he has been Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]. If he's climbed to any eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace...