Word: wentworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch to interpret bad contemporary Latin translations of Leeuwenhoek's unscientific Dutch, published a Leeuwenhoek biography (Harcourt, Brace, $7.50). Its Latin dedication translates: "This work of a dead Dutchman the English editor (as an animalcule to an ELEPHANT) gives, devotes & dedicates to his dearest brother, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a Scotsman; and also (as one animalcule to another animalcule) he gives, devotes & dedicates it to his equally dear, bastard little brother, Paul De Kruif, an American...
Ever since greying Harvard Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague became Economic Adviser to the Bank of England (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930), he has kept his mouth shut. Hearstian suspicions that he might be Wall Street's go-between in maneuvers to scale down Europe's War debts to the U. S. have slowly died out. Last week Professor Sprague, now an accepted and respected figure in "The City" (London's financial district), created a stir by stating his conviction that Prosperity can be restored in industrial countries by creating a demand for a new product-such...
Retaining a lead acquired in the first quarter, the Freshman basketball team of Coach R. H. Bond '19 whipped a weak Wentworth aggregation 53-27 yesterday afternoon...
...usual most of the men now practicing were players on their school teams so they are not without a good deal of experience, and Bond feels that he has little to worry about in regard to their individual ability. The real test will come in the game with Wentworth on Tuesday when he brings his first year men on the floor for the first time. After this game it will be easier to form some opinion as to the strength of the squad...
...president of the company as his father was before him, sits Thomas Bassett Macaulay. Life is peaceful and secure to Mr. Macaulay. He is an important figure in Montreal's closely-knit tycoonarchy. Sometimes he lunches at the St. James or Mount Royal Club with stocky, dapper Edward Wentworth Beatty of the C. P. R. or grave Sir Herbert Samuel Holt of the Royal Bank of Canada, both directors of his company. Summers he spends at Hudson Heights, raising fine Holsteins, experimenting with sturdy strains of corn...