Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory at Montreal. An austere, hard-driving administrator, Sir Oliver was brought up under the stern eye of his theologian father, made a brilliant record at Oxford and stayed on to become a don and dean of Queen's College. He was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow when he was drafted into the Ministry of Supply...
...Sir Oliver would take over some time in late April or May. Inverchapel would stay on until the Marshall Plan was passed by Congress, then retire to his sheep farm in Scotland...
...Nobel Prize Winner Sir Edward Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere before World War II led in time's nick to Britain's secret weapon...
...Died. Sir Isaac Isaacs, 92, first native-born Governor General of a British Dominion (Australia, 1931-36); in Melbourne. Isaacs found himself a storm center in Empire affairs when he was nominated; "a man the King has never seen," he was approved only at the insistence of Prime Minister James Henry Scullin and the Australian people...