Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiefs. The Lord Chief Justice of England was present, the Rt. Hon. Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart of Bury. Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court introduced him. Lord Chief Justice Hewart denounced bureaucracy in government and then, once a newspaperman himself, loudly decried current tendencies in the press as menaces to society even graver than Communist propaganda. Chief Justice Taft courteously and instructively surveyed the English origins...
...have reason to believe," wrote the Prince of Wales, "that when anyone in this country digs up a bone, his first instinct (subject to the intervention of the police) is to send it to Sir Arthur Keith...
...scientific research in relation to imperial development"-glossing over, for the rest, a royal ignorance of science itself with a few royal witticisms (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926). Now a real scientist was president again. The Association might get on with its business. The members settled back to attend President Sir Arthur Keith, who made every effort to transport his audience from the perfunctory to the profound...
Darwin to Date. It was 68 years since that gentlest of men, Charles Darwin, had trundled into position a battery of facts, collected patiently for many years, and blown mankind from its citadel of Biblical belief in its special divine origin. Sir Arthur Keith, whose audience included a kingdomful of radio listeners and a worldful of newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity...
...Sir Arthur confined himself to nothing more than a bare outline of Darwin's achievement, contenting himself with the assertion that the human species has been evolved from a "humble primate animal" and that man and ape have a common ancestor. The theory itself was not otherwise touched upon...