Word: britons
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...pajamas and exposed some open sores which he had on his thighs, some souvenirs of lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...
...place-a man with the personality and power to maintain the firm's great prestige. Felix Warburg, last of the old partners, acts today mostly as an adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm's syndicate department, is considered one of the most brilliant young men in Wall Street...
Preceded by European legends of fabulous wealth and lavish living, a big black-haired Briton and a little, grey-haired German arrived in Manhattan last week to do business in frozen German credits. Lieut.-Colonel Francis Norris and Siegfried Wreszynski established headquarters at Manhattan's swank Savoy-Plaza Hotel. "We don't take all the business that comes to us," they declared to reporters. "Perhaps $5,000,000 would be too small. It is just as much trouble to handle $5,000,000 as $100,000,000." They had, they boasted, liquidated a total...
...Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans commanding, hove to in the bleak South Atlantic one day last week to ride out a 70 m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been in 1912 with Captain Scott. In ordinary weather...
...Unfortunate is the repetition of the syllable 'di.' . . . "The [British] objection to ... deuterium and deuton seems to be founded upon the possibility of confusing the word neutron and the name deuton. It is interesting indeed that American scientific workers do not have any such difficulty." Not every Briton favored the Rutherford suggestions. Wrote Henry Edward Armstrong, Ph. D., LL. D., D. Sc., F. R. S., retired chemistry professor, "Chemists cannot admit such fearsome wild fowl as diplogen...