Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...containing 275 white feathers. They had been sent, London newspapers said, "from a women's college." Next day a second box brought 275 more white feathers. "Neither consignment," stiffly announced the President of the Union, "came from a women's college." Meanwhile 25-year-old Lord Stanley of Alderley and five other members of the Oxford Union appealed to life members all over Britain, urged them to gather on the night of March 2 and wipe their Union clean by voting to expunge the pacifist resolution from its minutes...
...things turned out Oxford did not have to wait that long. Night after Lord Stanley's appeal 30 broad and beefy Oxonians gathered outside the Union's double doors during a meeting, put shoulders to the doors and burst them...
...expert was Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who has labored in India 25 years, whose Christ of the Indian Road is one of the best known evangelical works of modern times. Dr. Jones counts Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore among his friends; Indians call him Rishi (Holy Sage). Christian Modernists and Fundamentalists have both claimed Dr. Jones. The Methodist Episcopal Church thrice offered him bishoprics, but his only allegiance is to its Board of Foreign Missions...
Brain Energy. Little known facts about brains pointed out by Harvard's Stanley Cobb: the brain of a sedentary brain-worker uses up more energy when he works than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body...
...lying in it, if the Prime Minister has his way. Last week he created a special Cabinet subcommittee of five to tug at Britain's end of the debt sheets. The Big Five: 1) the Prime Minister; 2) the Lord President of the Council, bumbling Stanley Baldwin who negotiated and signed at Washington in 1923 the promise to pay $11,000,000,000 over 62 years, from which Mother Britain has been trying to extricate herself ever since; 3) Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon; 4) Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; 5) President of the Board of Trade Walter...