Word: jean
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other novelist was Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux, author (at 39) of Suzanne and the Pacific, one of the funniest and freshest of modern French novels, and director (at 56) of France's brand-new, slow-starting Bureau des Informations...
Also well-known is Director Jean Giraudoux, who seemed likely to make France's war news exciting if any Frenchman was going to. But French official war communiques, while a little newsier than the British, were as guarded as Devil's Island. It was as though the French were reluctant to make big claims lest they have to retract them later...
...instituted the High Council of Scientific Research Coordination, which has numerous subsections-e.g., mathematics, biology, hydraulics, chemistry, optics, ballistics, telecommunications-working closely with the Institute for Applying Scientific Research to National Defense. The Council's officers, members and associates include four Nobel Prizewinners-Jean Perrin, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Prince Louis Victor de Broglie...
...between Belgium and France on the German border. Last week Luxembourg's ruler, Grand Duchess Charlotte, 43, was at home, with Europe shaking around her. At the White House as weekend guests (she has no Washington embassy) arrived her husband, sporting Prince Consort Felix, and their son. Prince Jean, 19. Besides wild boars, a favorite hobby of Prince Felix is the big Luxembourg radio station (strongest west of Moscow) and which, should the juggernaut roll again, would surely be extracted by Germany as thorn from flesh...
Last fall from the leaf-red hills of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the New Deal-fearing Investment Bankers Association of America reached as far from Wall Street as it could stretch for its new president: sunburned Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter...