Word: blackpool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...
When the potent Trades Union Congress, which represents 5,000,000 British workers, convened at Blackpool, Lancashire last week, loud demands were raised by militants for a new policy pledging Labor to cooperate no longer with Conservative Chamberlain's Cabinet in the big-paying job of Rearmament...
...made to reconcile the Association and the Guild. Now that BAAS inner council has changed its onetime "antisocial" attitude to one of thoughtful solicitude, the two organizations have merged. This year, therefore, sardonic Mr. Wells, who has an extremely wide if somewhat informal knowledge of science, turned up at Blackpool, had himself enrolled in BAAS...
Physician on Strain. Thomas Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder, physician-in-ordinary to Edward VIII, spoke angrily at Blackpool on "The Strain of Modern Civilization." 'Tn the street," cried he, "the trained eye detects physiognomies in all stages of the anxiety neurosis, which unloads itself on the digestion, circulation and other bodily functions. The functional diseases of the heart, blood vessels or glands have increased more rapidly than the organic. A tactfully conducted pursuit of the causes removes the screen of headache, insomnia, indigestion and fatigue and the anxiety factor stands revealed. Life has always had a certain amount...
...responsible for widespread acceptance of the theory that, some billions of years ago. a star passed close enough to the sun to exert a powerful gravitational attraction upon it. drew out long streamers of hot gas which condensed and cooled to become the Earth and the other planets. At Blackpool, Sir James said that a colleague had recently pointed out to him that this theory failed to account for the fast rotation speeds of the big outer planets, which have short days of about ten hours. The astronomer indicated his readiness to abandon the theory in favor of a better...