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SUN-WATCHING IN AMERICA: A Film of the Churning, Boiling Surface of the Sun Shown to U.S. Scientists

... The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest general scientific body in the world, has just held its 116th meeting in New York. More than 10,000 scientists attended sessions in five hotels and on the campus of Columbia University ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 945 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

International Ploughing Contest

... year they used the same type as other competitors, a compliment, I was told, to the team of Northern Ireland which recently toured Canada and used Canadian ploughs. The Swedes normally use American-type ploughs. It was obvious that in using alien ploughs ...

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Published: Wednesday 22 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 240 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Portraits in Print: Being the lucubrations of your most obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... the days when the niracle of a rising birthrate in France has â– ccurred. Youth is now as much absorbed in sports as outh in England. The scruffy Bohemians of vlontparnasse usually turn out to be either Americans or one's fellow countrymen. Young boys called ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1810 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Grand National Acceptors

... flat and, apart from one or two tricky turns, is as fair as any course in England. May I insist, too, that the Grand National, with its glorious history, is a sporting event. Let us not hedge it around with so many restrictions (for example, that prospective ...

Training for Better Golf

... putter perhaps my U.S. friend's tip might apply, and you will play better if you forget your putting except when you are on the course. If you are a rotten putter and you are in the majority, if that is any com fort you could also try my U.S. friend's tip ...

CORINTHIAN ELEGANCE: COTSWOLD CHARM, AND MEDIEVAL MELLOWNESS

... of preservation. The Abbey, a Cistercian foundation of 1278, was acquired by Drake taidino i? ta'te return*d to England in IS80 from his world voyage, his ship laden with gold, silver, silk and pearls as a consequence of highly successful commerce 'Venture ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 714 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Priscilla in Paris: A Mile Above It All

... friend, who said: Get away if only for a few days. Friends writing from the snows: This is a mar vellous spot, come and join us. The miracle of a vacant-at-the-last- minute sleeper and I found myself leaving the Gare de Lyons in the damp and foggy murk ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 908 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... banishment abroad the noblest men and women of this land because there was no living for them in England. Nothing personal in that sentence. If he had ever used a harsh word (which God forgive, if one such had slipped out), that word was born of harsh memories ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2187 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM HIGH WALKER-ON-TYNE TO HOLLAND PARK: And Other Pictures of Home News

... Ottawa is driven by a single-screw turbine with water-tube boilers. The seven vessels of her class, now in use, are on different routes all over the world SELLING UP THE AQUITANIA 99 The auctioneer on his platform in Shed 108, Southampton New Docks, during ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1097 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... vote for Harold Peabody, your Liberal candidate. Have you voted Hurry Hurry Nine more minutes. Nine more minutes to save England for Harold Peabody, your Liberal candidate. The last vote is cast, and the ballot-boxes are carried to the town hall or the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1640 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs