Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eric's successor will be 56-year-old Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, who served as Minister to Paris from 1929 to 1935, has since been Minister to Yugoslavia. It is unusual for a British Ambassador to France (with Paris and Washington at the top of the British Ambassadorial ladder) not to have served in more than one Legation and at least one other Embassy previously, but Sir Ronald is brilliant, literary, shrewd, tactful, firm, sardonic, and so intent on the matter before him that even his golf has something of the nature of a political démarche...
...even sadder case. The Government ordered the unwilling University of London out of town, dispersed its various colleges and departments to about a dozen places. One university professor refused to be driven. To his workshop, the Galton laboratory, established by famed Geneticist Sir Francis Galton, marched bearded, burly Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher with two women assistants. When guards stopped the assistants, Professor Fisher used his fists, succeeded in storming his own laboratory. There he patched up his party's wounds, went grimly to work...
...stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty's Office of Works to use the sacred space, announced a schedule of first-rate talent, invited the public to seven lunch-and-teatime concerts a week...
...Ronald L. Olson (methodical, oldtime anthropologist) : "Interesting material, old jokes, detailed memory examinations...
Those who will be proctors in the Law School living quarters are Francis A. Goodhue, Jr. 3L., Hewlett, L.I., N.Y.; Harry W. henry, Jr. 2L., St. Louis, Mo.; Philip H. Irwin 2L., Fort Collins, Colo.; Ronald C. Rooschlaub 3L., Los Angeles, Calif.; Norman P. Seagrave 3L., Fall River, Mass.; and Ernest J. Zack 3L., St. Paul, Minn...