Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mason from Sir: President Truman, referring to the time when he became Grand Master of the Missouri Grand Lodge in 1940, says: "I considered it, and still consider it, the highest honor that ever came to me" [TIME...
Wide & Woolly Sir: Last year you ran an item on the American Museum of Natural History's experiment in forecasting the severity of winter by noting the number of rings a caterpillar had. The Forecast was for a mild winter...
Though they feared and hated all foreigners, the Japanese called grave, spectacled Dr. Hepburn "Kunshi" (Honored Sir). For 32 years he worked among them as doctor and minister of Christ, but for many years his work as a missionary had to be carefully hidden. While working long hours at his dispensary, he found time to compile the first Japanese-English dictionary, which was so much in demand that three years after its publication copies were selling for as much as $62. The system of transliteration which he invented is still used to convert Japanese characters into Roman letters...
...Died. Sir Maurice Alan Cassidy, 69, heart specialist and physician to three British kings (George V, Edward VIII, George VI); of complications following an auto accident last April; in London...
...money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed for the U.S. with a total capital of $40. Aboard ship, his sketching so impressed Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, then British consul general in New York, that he gave him a note of introduction to Publisher Conde Nast...