Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current U. S. visit he attended medal ceremonies at a small school outside Cambridge. The mayor was giving prizes to the children. To console losers the mayor announced: "When I was a schoolboy I never got a medal. The boy sitting next me got many. His name was J. Thomson. Did any of you ever hear of him? No. And look at me, I'm the mayor...
...Thomson became Sir Joseph John Thomson, physicist, 1906 Nobel Prize winner...
President Hoover went down from Washington overnight aboard the S. S. Sequoia, a small Department of Commerce inspection boat. Landing near Norfolk, he went on out to the windswept dunes at the cape. There were gathered 10,000 people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop...
...crashed in France and killed 48 occupants because of leaking gas and bad weather. That fact, which everyone already knew, was virtually the sum total of the long-awaited report of the court of inquiry, delivered last week in London. The investigators fixed no blame upon Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, the Secretary of State for Air (killed in the crash) who was said to have hastened the start of the flight to India to precede the opening of the Imperial Conference. But they gingerly admitted that the inadequately tested ship ''would not have started...
...went to the Rouyn District of Quebec and found some gold. Nine years later he staked the claims, financed by a syndicate of farmers. Experts refused to buy him out but in 1922 two New York men, Humphrey W. Chadbourne (brother of Sugarman Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne) and Samuel C. Thomson, mining engineers, prospecting in the district, formed the Noranda syndicate to take over what Ed Home had found...