Word: cavendish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is humor too-often right in the midst of misfortune, as in what might be called "Coming Home from the Funeral." And there is small-boy adventure, whether with girls or tram rides or being sent to the tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...
...Helpful Crab. The radio astronomers of Cambridge's famous Cavendish Laboratory started with the assumption that if the moon has any atmosphere at all, the atoms of gas in it will be ionized (split into electrically charged particles) by sunlight, just as they are in the thin upper fringe of the earth's atmosphere. Such an ionized gas will bend radio waves, and the amount of bending will give by calculation the density of the charged particles...
...England's more spacious days, Sir William Cavendish won his family's fortunes as one of Henry VIII's crown commissioners, requisitioning monastic estates for the crown and the nobles; his great-great-grandson, the first Duke of Devonshire, won political power for the family by leading the Revolution of 1688 against the last of the Stuarts. On the ancestral Derbyshire lands the duke reared a vast palace that stands today in its 50,000-acre wooded park as a proud symbol of the centuries of the Whig ascendancy. Successive dukes festooned Chatsworth's 273 rooms...
Brooks, a specialist in nuclear power and solid state physics, is in England this year conducting research as a Guggenheim Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge...
Called from his studies by World War I, Macmillan served gallantly in the Grenadier Guards, was wounded three times. After the war he served long enough as aide to the Duke of Devonshire, then Canada's Governor General, to meet and marry his daughter. Lady Dorothy Cavendish. Through his marriage, Macmillan acquired links with one of the few remaining great families which (as left-wing politicians like to say) "control the Tory Party." His wife's brother married a sister of Lord Salisbury, a member of the great Cecil family who have been advisers and ministers to Britain...