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Word: sirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harmoniously does this declaration chime with the views of Secretary Kellogg that last week British editors began to warn British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain not to let himself be outsmarted by Dr. Stresemann in securing the goodwill of the U. S. Sir Austen, obviously embarrassed, soon made an unfortunate public allusion at Birmingham to the "unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Germany Accepts | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Next morning smart folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Knights Must Play | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...CHAMBERLAIN BROTHERS-Sir Austen (British Foreign Secretary) and Neville (Minister of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Brothers' Plight | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Brains. The brains of three brilliant scientists, Sir William Osier, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Sylvester Morse, were earnestly examined by Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia. He hoped these mighty mentalities had left some physical traces on the twisted convolutions of their brains. The tortuous hills and valleys of the cerebral hemispheres were much alike; nothing could be inferred from them about the tastes and pursuits of the living minds. These are matters of the chemical relationships in the living tissue; death blots them out; the brains of dead men look very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Washington | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Henry Ford was in England, dining with Lloyd George and Sir Harry E. Brittain,-* giving away a Ford car here, a Fordson tractor there, visiting farms and factories, stating that he regarded Great Britain as the centre of the Old World. Mrs. Ford was with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Assets | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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